In this Book
- I Have a Story to Tell You
- Book
- 2010
- Published by: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
- Series: Life Writing
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 of the Russian Revolution, the stories tell of the influence of Jewish culture and traditions, of personal–and organized–fights against exploitation, and of struggles to establish unions for better working conditions.
This book is a wonderful resource for teachers of Canadian, Jewish, and social history, as well as auto/biography and cultural studies. The simplicity of the language, transcribed from oral reports, makes this work accessible to anyone who enjoys a good story.
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- pp. xiii-xvi
- Introduction
- pp. xvii-xxvi
- Rose Kaplan Barkusky
- pp. 1-7
- Rose Gordon
- pp. 8-14
- Haskell (Harry) Ullman
- pp. 15-22
- Muriel Grad
- pp. 23-27
- Fanny (Baba) Osipov
- pp. 28-34
- David Shaya Kirman
- pp. 39-49
- Rose Smith
- pp. 50-53
- Nina Dolgoy Ullman
- pp. 54-57
- Sidney Sarkin
- pp. 58-72
- Sam Greenberg
- pp. 76-79
- Pauline Chudnovsky
- pp. 80-95
- Bluma Kogan
- pp. 86-93
- Norman Massey
- pp. 94-98
- Albert Abramowitz
- pp. 99-112
- Lil Abramowitz
- pp. 113-124
- Max Dolgoy
- pp. 125-132
- James (Jimmy) Blugerman
- pp. 133-146
- Samuel Nemetz
- pp. 147-156
- Sylvia Grafstein Klein
- pp. 157-162
- Molly Klein Goldsman
- pp. 163-164
- Rose Esterson
- pp. 165-168
- Joshua (Joe) Gershman
- pp. 169-179
- Jennie Zelda Litvak
- pp. 180-192
- Hyman Leibovitch
- pp. 193-205
- Masha Goldkind
- pp. 212-214
- Mary Kevalko
- pp. 215-219
- Max Povitz
- pp. 220-234
- Art Browner
- pp. 225-232
- Bertha Dolgoy Guberman
- pp. 233-246
- Max Yellen
- pp. 247-250
- Ben Abrams
- pp. 257-259
- Abraham Taylor
- pp. 260-263
- Simon Harris
- pp. 264-272
- Conclusion
- pp. 273-276
- Photographs
- pp. PS1-PS10
Additional Information
Copyright
2010