What They Saved: Pieces of a Jewish Past

by Nancy K. Miller

Book Overview

Winner of the 2012 Jewish Journal Book Prize After her father's death, Nancy K. Miller discovered a minuscule family archive: a handful of photographs, an unexplained land deed, a postcard from Argentina, unidentified locks of hair. These items had been passed down again and again, but what did they mean? Miller follows their traces from one distant relative to another, across the country, and across an ocean. Her story, unlike the many family memoirs...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080323001X
• ISBN13: 9780803230019
• Release Date: September 2011
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.8"