American Born : An Immigrant's Story, a Daughter's Memoir by Rachel M. ...

The University of Chicago Press

American BornAn Immigrant's Story, a Daughter's Memoir\nAuthor(s): Rachel M. Brownstein\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: The University of Chicago Press, United States\nImprint: University of Chicago Press\nISBN-13: 9780226823065, 978-0226823065\nSynopsis\nAn incisive memoir of Rachel M. Brownsteins seemingly quintessential Jewish mother, a resilient and courageous immigrant in New York. \n\n When she arrived alone in New York in 1924, eighteen-year-old Reisel Thaler resembled the other Yiddish-speaking immigrants from Eastern Europe who accompanied her. Yet she already had an American passport tucked in her scant luggage. Reisel had drawn her first breath on the Lower East Side of Manhattan in 1905, then was taken back to Galicia (in what is now Poland) by her father before she turned two. She was, as she would boast to the end of her days, American born.\n\n The distinguished biographer and critic Rachel M. Brownstein began writing about her mother Reisel during the Trump years, dwell.