American Born: An Immigrant's Story, a Daughter's Memoir by Rachel M. Brownstein non-media Chapters of this edited volume

Chapters of this edited volume consider from multiple angles the cultural politics of myths

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American Born: An Immigrant's Story, a Daughter's Memoir by Rachel M. Brownstein non-media Chapters of this edited volumeAn incisive memoir of Rachel M. Brownsteins seemingly quintessential Jewish mother, a resilient and courageous immigrant in New York. 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