Daughter of history : traces of an immigrant girlhood / Susan Rubin Suleiman.

"A photograph with faint writing on the back. A traveling chess set. A silver pin. These objects and the memories they evoke are among the threads that scholar and writer Susan Rubin Suleiman uses to weave back together the story of her early life as a Holocaust refugee and American immigrant. In th...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture.
Main Author: Suleiman, Susan Rubin, 1939- (Author)
Language:English
Published: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2023]
Series:Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture.
Subjects:
Suleiman, Susan Rubin, > 1939-
Jewish children in the Holocaust > Hungary > Biography.
Holocaust survivors > Hungary > Biography.
Holocaust survivors > United States > Biography.
Women college teachers > United States > Biography.
Holocaust survivors.
Jewish children in the Holocaust.
Women college teachers.
Hungary.
United States.
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Genre:
Biography.
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Physical Description:x, 244 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Part I. Budapest. Postcard to Zircz
  • Yellow-star house
  • Light blue wool dress
  • Red bicycle
  • Part II. In transit. Traveling chess set
  • St. Christopher Medal
  • Part III. America. Green and white Chevrolet
  • Seventeen
  • Fraternity pin
  • Beethoven concerto
  • Wooden bench, Lake Michigan
  • Round-trip tickets.