«My Name Is Freida Sima»: The American-Jewish Women's Immigrant Experience Through the Eyes of a Young Girl from the Bukovina

by Judith Tydor Baumel-Schwartz

Freida Sima (Bertha) Eisenberg Kraus was among the two million Jewish men, women and children who emigrated from Europe to the United States during the Great Wave of Immigration (1881-1914). This book tells her story and that of her family, from her birth in the Bukovina to her immigration to New York City alone at age fifteen in 1911, her immigrant work life, her marriage to a widower with four sons, and the birth of their only daughter right before...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3034321937
• ISBN13: 9783034321938
• Release Date: December 2016
• Publisher: Peter Lang Group Ag, International Academic P
• Length: 370 Pages
• Weight: 1.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 8.8"