Marie Syrkin : values beyond the self /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Waltham, Mass. : Hanover [N.H.] :
Brandeis University Press ; published by University Press of New England,
c2008.
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| Series: | HBI series on Jewish women
Brandeis series in American Jewish history, culture, and life |
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Table of Contents:
- Marie's birthright
- A Bronx adolescence
- That fabulous summer: Maurice
- Elopement and annulment
- Marriage, motherhood, tragedy
- David, divorce, and the death of Nachman
- A new life: Charles
- An unorthodox marriage: Palestine and Hollywood
- At the nexus of the "Jewish problem"
- On the Jewish Frontier: the twenty-first Zionist Congress
- The war, the White Paper, and the rescue of Jews
- Wartime horrors: personal unhappiness
- Postwar projects: DP camps, Blessed is the match, Israel
- Academia at last: the Brandeis years.