My name is Freida Sima : the American-Jewish women's immigrant experience through the eyes of a young girl from the Bukovina / Judith Tydor Baumel-Schwartz.

"Frieda Sima (Bertha) Eisenberg Kraus was among the two million Jewish men, women and children who emigrated from Europe to the United States during the Great Wave of Immigration (1881-1914). This book tells her story and that of her family, from her birth in the Bukovina to her immigration to New Y...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Baumel-Schwartz, Judith Tydor, 1959- (Author)
Language:English
Published: Bern : Peter Lang, [2017]
Subjects:
Jewish women > United States > Biography.
Jews > Europe, Eastern > History > 19th century.
Jews > Europe, Eastern > History > 20th century.
United States > Emigration and immigration > History > 19th century.
United States > Emigration and immigration > History > 20th century.
Israel > Emigration and immigration > History > 20th century.
Emigration and immigration.
Jewish women.
Jews.
Eastern Europe.
Israel.
United States.
1800 - 1999
History.
Genre:
Biography.
History.
Physical Description:367 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 23 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • How it all began : Ramat Gan 1975
  • The education of Frieda Sima : Mihowa-Eastern Galicia (1895-1911)
  • The immigration of Frieda Sima, New York (1911-1923)
  • The courtship of Frieda Sima, New York (1923-1928)
  • Marriage, motherhood, and money : Frieda Sima and the Great Depression, New York (1929-1939)
  • Frieda Sima and the Holocaust, New York, Rumania, and Transnitria (1939-1945)
  • New beginnings : Frieda Sima and her reunited family, New York and Israel (1945-1953)
  • Brighton Beach memoirs : Frieda Sima, Max and the golden years (1954-1974)
  • Frieda Sima makes Aliyah, Ramat-Gan and New York (1974-1984)
  • An end that is also a beginning.