Mendel's Children
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Mendel's Children

A Family Chronicle

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Mendel's Children

A Family Chronicle

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Through a unique combination of biography, memoir, and autobiography, Cherie Smith traces four generations of her immigrant family and, in doing so, charts the very course of Russian-Jewish immigration to the Canadian prairies over the last one hundred years.Mendel's Children: A Family Chronicle begins in the shtetles of Poland and Latvia in the 1890s and follows an often wild and woolly assortment of relatives as they strive to become Canadians. Meet Great-Grandfather Mendel, the dairyman, who started it all by siring five sons and four daughters; Robert and Sarah, who are conned out of their tickets to gold-rushing San Francisco and stranded in Winnipeg; Iser, a boy of 14, who is inspired to leave Russia after reading The Last of the Mohicans; Maxwell, the rum-runner; Jake, the quintessential schlemiel; and Morris, with his ever-diminishing thumb; Big Bessie and Ida, the battling aunts who fight to the death in their own private strudel war; Solomon, the Gentle, and gutsy Etza, caught up in war, revolution, and exile; and finally, the long-lost Margarita, who leaves the Soviet Union in 1990 to make a new life for herself and her children in Vancouver.

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Publisher
University of Calgary Press
Year
1997
ISBN
9781552384022
Topic
History
Subtopic
Jewish History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. CONTENTS
  2. NEWCOMER
  3. THE FINN FAMILY PHOTOGRAPH
  4. THE SCHLEMIEL AND THE SCHLEMAZEL
  5. LADY BALTIMORE CAKE
  6. THE GREAT FINNIGAN
  7. MELTING MOMENTS
  8. GREAT-UNCLE MORRIS'S EVER-DIMINISHING THUMB
  9. THIS STORE IS NOT FOR BURNING
  10. BIG BESSIE AND ME
  11. MENDEL'S CHILDREN
  12. THE BOY WHO LOVED JAMES FENIMORE COOPER
  13. THE GENTLE EXILE
  14. COUNTRY DOCTOR
  15. FLYING HIGH
  16. THE LAST OF OUR MOHICANS
  17. BIBLIOGRAPHY