A man comes from someplace : stories, history, memory from a lost time

A man comes from someplace : stories, history, memory from a lost time / Judith Pearl Summerfield.

A Man Comes from Someplace: Stories, History, Memory from a Lost Timeis a cultural study of a multi-generational Jewish family from a shtetl in southwestern Ukraine before World War I to their international lives in the 21st century. The narrative, told from multiple perspectives, becomes a transfor...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Summerfield, Judith Pearl (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Rotterdam : SensePublishers, 2015.
Series:Transgressions (Rotterdam, Netherlands),
Subjects:
Families > History.
Jewish families > Ukraine > History.
Jewish families > United States > History.
Storytelling.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
Families
Jewish families
Storytelling
Ukraine
United States
History
Online Access:Click for online access
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgements
  • Prologue: Ukraine, 2011
  • Introduction: So, Here's the Story
  • One: Time and Place
  • Novokonstantinov
  • This Man Came from Someplace
  • The River
  • A Good Place to Be
  • Two: Family
  • Chana the Long and Joseph of the Woods
  • Yosel's Family
  • Chana's Family
  • The House
  • Chana's Children: Brucha, Paci, Yeta, Meilach, Beila, Duved, Meyer, Samuel, William, Moishe, Motye
  • A Place in the World
  • Three: End of a World
  • Knowing your Place
  • Paci and Meilach, 1908
  • Meyer leaves for America, 1911
  • Yeta, Beila, and Chana, 1912-1915
  • Chaos.
  • Sivan 5/5679
  • June 3, 1919
  • Beila and Motye (1920)
  • Four: Going to America
  • Motye: 1920
  • Meyer's Message
  • Crossing the River
  • Zgurita
  • Kishinev
  • Five: A Brother's Keeper
  • A Story of a Family: Meyer 1911
  • Letters from the Shtetl, 1911
  • Six: A Man Without Papers
  • Letters from Motye (1921)
  • Bucharest
  • America, at Last
  • Seven: Immigrant Life
  • Arrival
  • Wanderings
  • Eight: Finding a Place
  • Becoming American
  • Fredericktown, Pennsylvania
  • Nine: Holding on to the Past
  • Reunion: Meyer, Duved, Moishe, Motye (1965)
  • Valhalla, New York
  • Sabbath Shuvah.
  • Ten: Return to the Old Country
  • Kiev: Yeta, 1912
  • Podolia
  • Letichev
  • Eleven: The Place Itself
  • To the River
  • Zina's House
  • Khmelnitsky
  • Dunaivtsi
  • Twelve: Stories to Grow On
  • Lost Places
  • Going Meta: On Story, History, and Memory
  • Index.

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