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I Have a Story to Tell You
Seemah C. Berson (Ed.)
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Description for I Have a Story to Tell You
Paperback. Deals with Eastern European Jewish immigrants living in Montreal, Toronto, and Winnipeg in the early twentieth century. This book tells their stories that encompass their travels and travails on leaving home and their struggles in the sweatshops and factories of the garment industry in Canada. Editor(s): Berson, Seemah C. Num Pages: 324 pages, 24 b/w photos. BIC Classification: JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 155 x 20. Weight in Grams: 474.
I Have a Story to Tell You is about Eastern European Jewish immigrants living in Montreal, Toronto, and Winnipeg in the early twentieth century. The stories encompass their travels and travails on leaving home and their struggles in the sweatshops and factories of the garment industry in Canada. Basing her work on extensive interviews, Seemah Berson recreates these immigrants' stories about their lives in the Old Country and the hardship of finding work in Canada, and she tells how many of these newcomers ended up in the needle trades. Revealing a fervent sense of socialist ideology acquired in the crucible ... Read more
I Have a Story to Tell You is about Eastern European Jewish immigrants living in Montreal, Toronto, and Winnipeg in the early twentieth century. The stories encompass their travels and travails on leaving home and their struggles in the sweatshops and factories of the garment industry in Canada. Basing her work on extensive interviews, Seemah Berson recreates these immigrants' stories about their lives in the Old Country and the hardship of finding work in Canada, and she tells how many of these newcomers ended up in the needle trades. Revealing a fervent sense of socialist ideology acquired in the crucible ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Wilfrid Laurier University Press Canada
Number of pages
285
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
Weight
474g
Number of Pages
324
Place of Publication
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
ISBN
9781554582198
SKU
V9781554582198
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About Seemah C. Berson (Ed.)
Seemah C. Berson was born and raised in Calcutta, India. After travelling extensively, she arrived in Vancouver, B.C., in 1954. She received her B.A. (1975) and M.A. (1980) from the University of British Columbia. She is co-editor with Henry M. Rosenthal of The Canadian Jewish Outlook Anthology (1988), and was a contributor to and long-time member of Outlook magazineas collective. ... Read more
Reviews for I Have a Story to Tell You
``Seemah C. Berson's I Have a Story to Tell You consists of a series of detailed interviews with Jews who fled to Canada from Eastern Europe during the first three decades of the twentieth century. Berson interviewed these immigrants in the mid-1970s, and in this collection, she has kept herself in the background, enabling the interviewees' own stories to emerge ... Read more