And Prairie Dogs Weren't Kosher: Jewish Women in the Upper Midwest Since 1855
By Linda M. Schloff.
Description
Donated by the Jewish Women's Center of Pittsburgh. "[My parents] got tired of eating potatoes, and prairie dogs weren't kosher." —Isadore Pitts, son of Jewish immigrants to South Dakota, about 1913Linking the personal and the historical, Linda Mack Schloff integrates oral accounts, diaries, letters, and autobiographies with original research and interpretation to present the little-known story of the Jewish experience in America's heartland. And Prairie Dogs Weren't Kosher uses the voices of four generations of Jewish women who settled in Minnesota, the ...
ISBN(s)
0873513371, 9780873513371
