Judith Tydor Baumel Schwartz: 3 books
A Very Special Life: The Bernice Chronicles
One Womans Odyssey Through Twentieth Century Jewish America
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2017
This book tells the story of mid-20th century Jewish America through the eyes of Bernice Cohen Schwartz, born in NYC in 1923. The oldest daughter of a family of Eastern European origin, Bernice had an American-born mother, but in other things was similar to her contemporaries, reflecting the lives...
Never Look Back
The Jewish Refugee Children in Great Britain, 1938-1945
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2012
Between December 1938 and September 1939, nearly ten thousand refugee children from Central Europe, mostly Jewish, found refuge from Nazism in Great Britain. This was known as the Kindertransport movement, in which the children entered as "transmigrants," planning to return to Europe once...
«My Name is Freida Sima»
The American-Jewish Womens Immigrant Experience Through the Eyes of a Young Girl from the Bukovina
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2016
Freida Sima (Bertha) Eisenberg Kraus was among the two million Jewish men, women and children who emigrated from Europe to the United States during the Great Wave of Immigration (1881–1914). This book tells her story and that of her family, from her birth in the Bukovina to her immigration to New...