Our Father Abe: The Story of a Deaf Shoe Repairman

by Eva A.B. Dicker, Eva B. Dicker, Harvey L. Barash, et al.

Book Overview

Book - the story of a deaf shoe repairman. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0962963410
• ISBN13: 9780962963414
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: Abar Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 8.5" x 11.0"

Customer Reviews

gripping read, at the intersection of personal history and cultural history

I stumbled on "Our Father Abe: The Story of a Deaf Shoe Repairman" at the library looking for memoirs and passing the local history display. It's a gripping read! the authors, Abe's two children, have done an excellent job of storytelling, with a frank and graceful touch. This is a book poised at the intersection of personal history and cultural history. Abe (born 1900s to Russian Jews) lost his hearing before acquiring language, then went on to experience everything Jews in the 20th c. emigrating from Europe & landing in the midwest went through, but with the challenge of deafness in tow. This book would be of interest to the Deaf community as much as it is to the Jewish community or to memoir writers like me. A testament to the personal desire to publish, and the good that can radiate into the world from such a desire.