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A Bygone Yesterday: a Family Story

2014-10-25 Family & Relationships
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Release : 2014-10-25
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Book Synopsis A Bygone Yesterday: a Family Story by : Lawrence Freund

Download or read book A Bygone Yesterday: a Family Story written by Lawrence Freund. This book was released on 2014-10-25. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Bygone Yesterday is a remembrance written by a grandson of Samuel and Louise Freund, detailing their roots in 19th century Bohemia (now the Czech Republic) and their shoots in the New World, from New York Citys Yorkville neighborhood to Chicago and Florida. It is the history of one couple that stepped aboard a train in Central Europe on a spring day in 1891 and began a journey that would transform their lives and the lives of their descendants. Yet, at the same time, the books broad scope creates a biographical collage, putting flesh on a broad sweep of history. A Bygone Yesterday explores the lives of Samuel and Louise Freund, their ancestors, descendants and kinfolk, as well as the social and historic context of the times in which they lived, touching on, among other things, the restrictive and discriminatory family laws of 19th century Bohemia, early 20th century life in the Yorkville enclave of New York City, the tragedy of the Holocaust and the ultimate triumph of a warm and embracing family life.

A Bygone Yesterday

2014 Family & Relationships
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Release : 2014
Genre : Family & Relationships
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Book Synopsis A Bygone Yesterday by : Lawrence S. Freund

Download or read book A Bygone Yesterday written by Lawrence S. Freund. This book was released on 2014. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Bygone Yesterday is a remembrance written by a grandson of Samuel and Louise Freund, detailing their roots in 19th century Bohemia (now the Czech Republic) and their shoots in the New World, from New York City's Yorkville neighborhood to Chicago and Florida. It is the history of one couple that stepped aboard a train in Central Europe on a spring day in 1891 and began a journey that would transform their lives and the lives of their descendants. Yet, at the same time, the book's broad scope creates a biographical collage, putting flesh on a broad sweep of history. A Bygone Yesterday explores the lives of Samuel and Louise Freund, their ancestors, descendants and kinfolk, as well as the social and historic context of the times in which they lived, touching on, among other things, the restrictive and discriminatory family laws of 19th century Bohemia, early 20th century life in the Yorkville enclave of New York City, the tragedy of the Holocaust and the ultimate triumph of a warm and embracing family life.

Bygone Days

2005 Bison (S.D.)
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Release : 2005
Genre : Bison (S.D.)
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Book Rating : 238/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Bygone Days by : John Penor

Download or read book Bygone Days written by John Penor. This book was released on 2005. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Photography by John Penor. Foreward by Patti Smith. Created by Steven Sebring.

American Jews with Czechoslovak Roots

2018-06-19 Biography & Autobiography
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Release : 2018-06-19
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Synopsis American Jews with Czechoslovak Roots by : Miloslav Rechcigl Jr.

Download or read book American Jews with Czechoslovak Roots written by Miloslav Rechcigl Jr.. This book was released on 2018-06-19. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a pioneering, comprehensive bibliography of existing publications relating to American Jews with ancestry in the former Czechoslovakia and its successor states, the Czech and the Slovak Republics, which has never before been attempted. Since only a few studies have been written on the subject, the present work has been extended to include biobibliography, in which area a plethora of papers and monographs exist. Consequently, this compendium can also be viewed as a comprehensive listing of biographical sources relating to American Jews with the Czechoslovak roots. As the reader will find out, they have been involved, practically, in every field of human endeavor, in numbers that surprise. As for the definition of Jews, the present work encompasses not only the individuals that have professed in Judaism but also the descendants of the former Jews who originally lived on the territory of the former Czechoslovakia, regardless of the generation or where they were born.

Smalltime: A Story of My Family and the Mob

2021-02-02 History
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Release : 2021-02-02
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Smalltime: A Story of My Family and the Mob by : Russell Shorto

Download or read book Smalltime: A Story of My Family and the Mob written by Russell Shorto. This book was released on 2021-02-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of 2021 Family secrets emerge as a best-selling author dives into the history of the mob in small-town America. Best-selling author Russell Shorto, praised for his incisive works of narrative history, never thought to write about his own past. He grew up knowing his grandfather and namesake was a small-town mob boss but maintained an unspoken family vow of silence. Then an elderly relative prodded: You’re a writer—what are you gonna do about the story? Smalltime is a mob story straight out of central casting—but with a difference, for the small-town mob, which stretched from Schenectady to Fresno, is a mostly unknown world. The location is the brawny postwar factory town of Johnstown, Pennsylvania. The setting is City Cigar, a storefront next to City Hall, behind which Russ and his brother-in-law, “Little Joe,” operate a gambling empire and effectively run the town. Smalltime is a riveting American immigrant story that travels back to Risorgimento Sicily, to the ancient, dusty, hill-town home of Antonino Sciotto, the author’s great-grandfather, who leaves his wife and children in grinding poverty for a new life—and wife—in a Pennsylvania mining town. It’s a tale of Italian Americans living in squalor and prejudice, and of the rise of Russ, who, like thousands of other young men, created a copy of the American establishment that excluded him. Smalltime draws an intimate portrait of a mobster and his wife, sudden riches, and the toll a lawless life takes on one family. But Smalltime is something more. The author enlists his ailing father—Tony, the mobster’s son—as his partner in the search for their troubled patriarch. As secrets are revealed and Tony’s health deteriorates, the book become an urgent and intimate exploration of three generations of the American immigrant experience. Moving, wryly funny, and richly detailed, Smalltime is an irresistible memoir by a masterful writer of historical narrative.

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