- Gebundene Ausgabe: 328 Seiten
- Verlag: Basic Books (21. September 2009)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0465015255
- ISBN-13: 978-0465015252
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 23,6 x 15,5 x 3,3 cm
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This is one family's journey from Lithuania to Baltimore to London in a memoir that poignantly captures the Jewish immigrant story. Drawn to an image of her great-grandfather's ornately carved cane, Elisa New embarked on a journey to discover the roots of her precious family heirloom. Along the way, she found that she had to dispose of much of what she'd learned about her own heritage as she confronted a series of complex and confounding questions: Why did her family leave Lithuania? Once in America, why did they claim Austrian identities? What would bring her great grandfather, Jacob, to curse his sons? What would cause her great uncles to disown the family name? Treading back across the paths of four generations, New travels from Baltimore to the Baltic to revisit the place where her great grandfather was born, and where her relatives died in the mass murders of the Second World War, in order to find and understand an immigrant world far different than described in the classics of Jewish immigration. Deeply ambitious in its narrative sweep, Jacob's Cane captures the rich texture of life in Lithuania, London and America. From the meteoric rise of Bernard Baron in the English tobacco trade to the socialist campaign of her great grandfather in the immigrant hub of Baltimore, Elisa New provides a fascinating history of one family's journey, reflecting on the immigrant experience and complex heritage of so many Jewish Diaspora.
Über den Autor
Elisa New is Professor of English and American Literature and Language at Harvard University. She is the author of The Line's Eye and The Regenerate Lyric. She lives with her husband, Larry Summers, the economist and former president of Harvard University, in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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Jacob's Cane From A Baltimore Perspective
15. Februar 2010
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Jacob's Cane is an ambitious book that discusses Lithuanian and German Jews in Baltimore, my ancestors exactly. The book does open a window to the milieu of my great-grandparents and grandparents. But this book is marred by numerous factual errors. Some I picked out: every Marylander who has ever vacationed at the closest Atlantic beaches knows that Bethany Beach is in Delaware; people who studied the state of Maryland in elementary school may remember that tobacco is grown only in Southern Maryland; Baltimoreans with some sense of history know that Redwood Street was called German Street during the time period the author spends pages discussing. Hometown Hero Babe Ruth lived for some time at St. Mary's (known as a reform school or orphanage) so the folks Jacob helped who were from there could not have been black in very segregated Baltimore. Now that mother, aged 87, is reading it, she calls everyday to tell me about more mistakes. The way the author describes the interiors of the houses on Eutaw Place (where my father's grandparents lived) is inaccurate; the excursion boat to Tolchester didn't leave from Locust Point and so on. She did tell me her Aunt Rae worked as a cigar roller when she was very young. But the worst factual mistake of all is something that will be noticed by many people nationwide who may want to read this book. Henrietta Szold, founder of Hadassah and one of the most important women in American Jewish history, was not the wife of Rabbi Benjamin Szold, but unmarried and childless even though she did so much for children. My mother feels that, in a number of instances, the author "took something of the facts" and surmised from there. Regrettably, this appears to be the case.
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Jacob's Cane - Wow, this book hit home for Me!
22. November 2009
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When I saw the review by Aaron Leibel on the author's web-site,[...] I knew I had to explore this tale of Jewish immigration from Lithuania to America and elsewhere -- my grandparents also grew up in Riga and, like the author's family, they too lost most of their family to the Nazis.
I was so moved by the similarities that I immediately started to look through my old family papers. By the time I finished reading the book however, I realized that this was the work of a literature scholar -- I could not compete with her. Professor New's research took almost ten years she says, visiting Europe three times, England, Israel, and many stops on the Atlantic Coast interviewing her USA descendants. On many of these trips her various daughters were in tow, the oldest one, Yael, translated for her in French and Russian. Professor New herself speaks fluent Hebrew from her early childhood visits to Israel she says, and it was then used to find, converse and hold hands with the only living family member from Riga family whom had escaped the Nazis and had not previously been found. She (Rivka) is now 86 and well!
This memoir is extraordinary. One or two chapters were difficult to get through, but in retrospect I see now their importance as background to the various family business ventures in the USA and London.
I have read a great deal about the Holocaust and the Nazi era; this family memoir by the author provides a new perspective, painful again to recall, but so touching for me, and the emotions cause the tears to flow.
I was so moved by the similarities that I immediately started to look through my old family papers. By the time I finished reading the book however, I realized that this was the work of a literature scholar -- I could not compete with her. Professor New's research took almost ten years she says, visiting Europe three times, England, Israel, and many stops on the Atlantic Coast interviewing her USA descendants. On many of these trips her various daughters were in tow, the oldest one, Yael, translated for her in French and Russian. Professor New herself speaks fluent Hebrew from her early childhood visits to Israel she says, and it was then used to find, converse and hold hands with the only living family member from Riga family whom had escaped the Nazis and had not previously been found. She (Rivka) is now 86 and well!
This memoir is extraordinary. One or two chapters were difficult to get through, but in retrospect I see now their importance as background to the various family business ventures in the USA and London.
I have read a great deal about the Holocaust and the Nazi era; this family memoir by the author provides a new perspective, painful again to recall, but so touching for me, and the emotions cause the tears to flow.
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Not for the casual reader...
7. Februar 2010
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Elisa New's memoir, "Jacob's Cane", is not for the casual reader. It's not easy going for a reader; as the book's secondary title explains, it's a family's journey from Europe to the US and then back again.
The journey back to Europe is actually three journeys. After leaving the Riga area in the mid-1880's for the US, several of Jacob Levy's sons and grandsons are tempted to settle in London for economic reasons in the early 1900's. The five men - three sons and two grandsons of family patriarch, Jacob - are offered jobs at a London cigarette factory owned by a distant family relative. Jacob's sons accept Bernhard Baron's job and also take his name. The second journey back to Europe is Elisa New's own. She had grown up on family stories of life in Lithuania before the her great-grandfather, Jacob, emigrated to Baltimore, along with several family members. The third journey back is done by Jacob, in 1928, when he returned to his native village in Lithuania to see family members left behind. And who were murdered by the Nazis and their Lithuanian helpers in 1942 and 1943. (How eerie and sad is it to look at a family picture with twelve or so family members in it and know that all but one ended their lives in the burial pits in Lithuania and Latvia?)
New is a very detailed writer and the book covers everything from how tobacco is grown in the US and then shipped to England for manufacture into cigarettes to the science behind "shrinking" of fabric. It's never boring.
"Jacob's Cane" is the beautiful hand-made cane his family members gave him to mark his return in 1928.
New is a good writer and the book is worthwhile reading if the reader is interested in the subject. I wish she had included a lot more pictures in the text.
The journey back to Europe is actually three journeys. After leaving the Riga area in the mid-1880's for the US, several of Jacob Levy's sons and grandsons are tempted to settle in London for economic reasons in the early 1900's. The five men - three sons and two grandsons of family patriarch, Jacob - are offered jobs at a London cigarette factory owned by a distant family relative. Jacob's sons accept Bernhard Baron's job and also take his name. The second journey back to Europe is Elisa New's own. She had grown up on family stories of life in Lithuania before the her great-grandfather, Jacob, emigrated to Baltimore, along with several family members. The third journey back is done by Jacob, in 1928, when he returned to his native village in Lithuania to see family members left behind. And who were murdered by the Nazis and their Lithuanian helpers in 1942 and 1943. (How eerie and sad is it to look at a family picture with twelve or so family members in it and know that all but one ended their lives in the burial pits in Lithuania and Latvia?)
New is a very detailed writer and the book covers everything from how tobacco is grown in the US and then shipped to England for manufacture into cigarettes to the science behind "shrinking" of fabric. It's never boring.
"Jacob's Cane" is the beautiful hand-made cane his family members gave him to mark his return in 1928.
New is a good writer and the book is worthwhile reading if the reader is interested in the subject. I wish she had included a lot more pictures in the text.
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