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izpiz64's review
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
medium-paced
4.75
Content Warnings
Graphic: Antisemitism
Minor: Child abuse
kathleenitpdx's review
4.0
Last fall, my sister and I visited New York City. While there we visited the Tenement Museum. We did a walking tour of the neighborhood and the tenement building. In this book a Russian Jewish woman describes her childhood including her life in Russia, her immigration to the New York and her life there—working in the garment industry, a short stint as a servant, contacts with the “outside world” (upper Manhattan and the countryside). Having seen a tenement, it was easy to visualize the stoops, the halls, the stairs, the rooms, the back area where the outhouses and water pump were as Rose Cohen describes them and her life there.
As the introduction by Thomas Dublin explains, this was written when Cohen was still young, when she was still struggling with her feelings toward her family, her religion and the world outside the enclosed community they lived in. It was not written forty years later from the comfort of a middle-class life. It is raw and compelling.
As the introduction by Thomas Dublin explains, this was written when Cohen was still young, when she was still struggling with her feelings toward her family, her religion and the world outside the enclosed community they lived in. It was not written forty years later from the comfort of a middle-class life. It is raw and compelling.
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