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Surviving Remnant: Memories of the Jewish Greenhorns in 1950s America

Name: Surviving Remnant: Memories of the Jewish Greenhorns in 1950s America
Brand: Buttonhole Publishing
SKU: 9780997971200
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Contributors:

Hanna Perlstein Marcus

Publisher:

Buttonhole Publishing

Binding:

Paperback

Book Category:

Biography & Autobiography, Social Science, History

Book Subcategory:

Personal Memoirs, Emigration & Immigration, Modern

Book Topic:

20th Century

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Release Date:

2017-03-14

ISBN 13:

9780997971200

Weight:

0.75 lbs

Size:

8.00 x 5.25 x 0.67 inches

Pages:

296

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Description

How does a young girl search for a benevolent father figure and suitable husband for her single mother among a group of Holocaust survivors? Set in the deteriorating north end of Springfield, Massachusetts in the 1950s, Surviving Remnant is Hanna Perlstein Marcus' sequel to her award-winning memoir, Sidonia's Thread. Surviving Remnant recreates the author's childhood community of ambitious, humorous, and resilient immigrant refugees who occupy an apartment building, eager to adapt to their new homeland and build new lives for themselves and their children in the aftermath of the Holocaust.

Along her hapless search for a father, Marcus becomes a fanatical Brooklyn Dodgers fan, a misguided violinist, a somnambulist, a neurotic, a hopeless matchmaker, and noted fashion model for her mother's stunning designs.

Marcus' experiences growing up with her mother in an enclave of Holocaust survivors portray a story no one knows--until now. Surviving Remnant is an authentic look at a moving immigrant saga from deep inside.

About the Author
Marcus, Hanna Perlstein: - Hanna Perlstein Marcus was born at the Bergen Belsen displaced persons camp after World War II and later immigrated to Springfield, Massachusetts with her mother. She is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts and University of Connecticut and is a licensed clinical social worker in Connecticut. Her first book, Sidonia's Thread, her memoir of growing up with her Holocaust survivor single mother, was the winner of the 2014 Best Kindle Book Award for nonfiction and a nominee for the Sophie Brody Medal and Sarton Memoir Prize. She is the winner of a first place short story prize from the Connecticut Authors and Publishers Association for a short story adapted from Sidonia's Thread. She is a popular public speaker at libraries, colleges, synagogues, churches, organizations, and community programs.