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She was a single mother of several children. When talking about her extended family she would hold up her hands and say, in Yiddish, how she only had ten fingers, and ask which one could she spare, hence the books title. The writing is very formal, always in third person, even if Isabelle is the subject. The content however, is constantly fascinating and entertaining. The book is written in short sections, each a little story of its own, telling the family tale. The overall effect is charming and moving and very informative.
As Isabelle told us, it's not a history book, but history is what comes out of it. The main history is that of the Eastern European Jewish immigrants, and for this audience the book is especially of value.
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While the details in this book are unique to Isabelle Stamler and her family, it fills in the atmosphere of a larger picture that covers many similar families. So many Jewish immigrant families have similar histories, of leaving Eastern Europe to escape the pogroms and antisemitism to start over from scratch in a new country where antisemitism was much toned down and much less violent.
The first generation suffered through years of hard work and poverty, and then suffered again through the depression which ruined many of their nascent grand ideas. But through the long haul, many of the descendants of these families succeeded in post-war America and today make up a large percentage of American Jewry. Unique to Isabelle's story is the strong and independent women in her life.
Both her mother and Sarah, her grandmother, were single financially independent woman while their children were young. Two books came to mind while reading this.
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The first was Little Heathens by Mildred Armstrong Kalish, a highly regarded personal history of growing up depression era Iowa. Like Kalish, Stamler's writing is very formal, but her stories are all thoroughly entertaining, and charming effect is similar. The other book this brings to mind is Our Parents' Lives: Stamler's book is essentially an oral history. When she talked about the book she would get carried away telling her same stories right from the book, in almost the same manner, until she would stop herself and say read the book. I asked Stamler why she wrote in third person, and she said she didn't know she just wrote that way.
The book is longer than it should be. It seems Stamler could not stop writing, and once she gets to her own life, she adds more and more detail, which slows the book down. There is no clear reason why she includes all this detail, but there also is no reason why not to include it either. And it is consistently entertaining and enlightening. From Isabelle's life stories we learn quite a bit about life in last 's and 's. She touches on American antisemitism, racism, over-empowered public school administrators, and many other aspects of the era. Overall this is charming history full of strong women in the Jewish immigrant world who deal with the limitations and compromises of their time and their cultures.
There is much to learn here and much enjoyment to it. I met the author and was very impressed with her knowledge of Jewish European and NY history. The book was an easy read with tremendous insight to her family. There is nothing comparable today to what the Eastern European Jews had to endure prior to and during the holocaust. It is amazing what can be accomplished from nothing, especially when families stick together and support each other. I certainly recommend it to anyone interested in Jewish culture. While the book traces a family, and the growth and romance of Isabelle, it is an extremely useful and important book for the glimpses it gives of Jewish life during the early and midth century.
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