The family : three journeys into the heart of the twentieth century /
Traces the history of the 20th century through the story of an extraordinary Jewish family, recounting how the author's 19th-century ancestors were separated by period upheavals in western Russia and went on to become the founders of the Maidenform Bra Company, pioneers in the contentious birth...
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| Other Corporate Authors / Creators: | Beren Family Jewish Studies Library Fund (Wellesley College Library) |
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Imprint: | New York : Viking, 2013. |
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| Local Note: | Gift of the Beren Family Jewish Studies Library Fund. |
Table of Contents:
- Volozhin
- The move to Rakov
- The making of a revolutionary
- The boys
- Lower East Side
- The birth of a business
- Socialist in a black satin dress
- First World War
- Pioneers
- The Depression
- "We will be glad to take you back"
- In love in the land
- Return to Rakov
- "The world of tomorrow"
- Second World War
- Under the big ones
- "They snatch whole streets"
- "Aktion"
- Vilna Ghetto
- Yom Kippur, 1941
- Wonder girl
- Breakdowns
- Despairing people
- Klooga
- Postwar.
