Objects of Love and Regret A Brooklyn Story

Name: Objects of Love and Regret
Author: Richard Rabinowitz

Auteur: Richard Rabinowitz

Taal: Engels

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Auteur: Richard Rabinowitz Adrian Vermeule

Engels
Hardcover
9780674268593
27 september 2022
352 pagina's

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Acclaimed historian and museum curator Richard Rabinowitz tells the story of his immigrant Jewish family through the everyday objects in their lives, from chairs and bottle openers to bottles of perfume. Vivid, absorbing, and powerfully honest, this is a story of one family and one community but also of emotional touchstones that anchor us all.

An award-winning historian and museum curator tells the story of his Jewish immigrant family by lovingly reconstructing its dramatic encounters with the memory-filled objects of ordinary life.

At a pushcart stall in East New York, Brooklyn, in the spring of 1934, eighteen-year-old Sarah Schwartz bought her mother, Shenka, a green, wooden-handled bottle opener. Decades later, Sarah would tear up telling her son Richard, “Your bubbe always worked so hard. Twenty cents, it cost me.”

How could that unremarkable item, and others like it, reveal the untold history of a Jewish immigrant family, their chances and their choices over the course of an eventful century? By unearthing the personal meaning and historical significance of simple everyday objects, Richard Rabinowitz offers an intimate portrait connecting Sarah, Shenka, and the rest of his family to the twentieth-century transformations of American life. During the Depression, Sarah—born on a Polish battlefield in World War I, scarred by pogroms, pressed too early into adult responsibilities—receives a gift of French perfume, her fiancé Dave’s response to the stigma of poverty. Later we watch Dave load folding chairs into his car for a state-park outing, signaling both the postwar detachment from city life and his own escape from failures to be a good “provider” for those he loves.

Objects of Love and Regret is closely wedded to the lives of American Jewish immigrants and their children, yet Rabinowitz invites all of us to contemplate the material world that anchors our own memories. Beautifully written, absorbing, and emotionally vivid, this is a memoir that brings us back to the striving, the dreams, the successes, and the tragedies that are part of every family’s story.

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Taal: en
Bindwijze: Hardcover
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 27 september 2022
Aantal pagina's: 352
Illustraties: Met illustraties

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Hoofdauteur: Richard Rabinowitz
Tweede Auteur: Adrian Vermeule
Hoofduitgeverij: Harvard University Press

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Product breedte: 140 mm
Product lengte: 210 mm
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Verpakking breedte: 140 mm
Verpakking hoogte: 210 mm
Verpakking lengte: 210 mm

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EAN: 9780674268593

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Geschiedenis

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Sociale & Culturele geschiedenis

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Noord-, Midden-, & Zuid-Amerika

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