From Sarah to Sydney: The Woman Behind All-Of-A-Kind Family by June Cummins Holocaust History Laura Arnold Leibman examines five

Laura Arnold Leibman examines five objects owned by a diverse group of Jewish women who all lived in New York in the years between 1750 and 1850: a letter from impoverished Hannah Louzada seeking assistance

Oral histories of Lithuanian Jews serve as the textual base for this exploration

and the almost miraculous renaissance of an area from which hundreds of other family-owned stores had fled

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and the perils of childbirth

From Sarah to Sydney: The Woman Behind All-Of-A-Kind Family by June Cummins Holocaust History Laura Arnold Leibman examines fiveThis is the first and only biography of Sydney Taylor (19041978), author of the award winning All of a Kind Family series of books, the first juvenile novels published by a mainstream publisher to feature Jewish children characters. The familybased on Taylors own as a childincludes five sisters, each two years apart, dressed alike by their fastidious immigrant mother so they all look the same: all of a kind. The four other sisters names were the same