And Prairie Dogs Weren't Kosher: Jewish Women in the Upper Midwest Since 1855

by Linda Mack Schloff

Book Overview

" My parents] got tired of eating potatoes, and prairie dogs weren't kosher." --Isadore Pitts, son of Jewish immigrants to South Dakota, about 1913

Linking 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 087351338X
• ISBN13: 9780873513388
• Release Date: September 1996
• Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press
• Length: 254 Pages
• Weight: 1.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.7" x 9.0"