Stella Suberman
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"For a real bargain, while you're making a living, you should make also a life." --Aaron Bronson
In 1920, in small-town America, the ubiquitous dry goods store--suits and coats, shoes and hats, work clothes and school clothes, yard goods and notions--was usually owned by Jews and often referred to as "the Jew store." That's how Stella Suberman's father's store, Bronson's Low-Priced Store, in Concordia, Tennessee, was known locally. The Bronsons...
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When Stella Suberman wrote her first memoir, “The Jew Store”, at the age of seventy-six, she was widely praised for shedding light on a forgotten piece of American history-Jewish life in the rural South. In her new memoir, Suberman reveals yet another overlooked aspect of America's past-the domestic side of war.
Her story begins in the Miami Beach she grew up in, when hotel signs boasted "Always a View, Never a Jew" and where a passenger ship...