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Sheymes: A Family Album after the Holocaust 9780773596955

Table of contents :
Cover
Half-title
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Introduction
A Note on the Transliteration of Yiddish
1 My Father’s Visit, 1983
2 Paris Is the Most Beautiful City in the World
3 Wood
4 The Forest of Beech Trees
5 Immigrants
6 “Send Away the Mother Bird”
7 My Sister’s Visit, Montreal, 1980
8 Poppyseed Cake
9 “He Will Turn the Children toward the Parents,” 1990
10 The Other Elizabeth
11 Shevirah (Shattering), November 1993
12 It’s Lively in the Shtetl, December 1993
13 Mame-Loshen (Mother Tongue), 1995
14 April 1996
15 “Honour Thy Father and Mother,” June 1996
16 Blindsight, 2000
17 Spring 1997
18 Rachamim (Compassion), 1997
Epilogue: Yizkor
Dertsaylung fun a geratevete/Account of a Rescued Person by Chaja Zylberberg Wajnberg
Until the Outbreak of the War
Bitter Days for the Jews of Demblin
The Roundup
I Jumped through the Window
Good People Help Us
Acknowledgments

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