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Dakota Diaspora: Memoirs of a Jewish Homesteader

by Sophie Trupin. 160 pgs.

Contributors:

   Sophie Trupin

Publisher:

   University of Nebraska Press

Place of Publication:

  Lincoln, NE  

Publication Year:

  1988

Subjects:

Trupin, Sophie, Jews--North Dakota--Biography, Jews--North Dakota--Social Life And Customs, North Dakota--Ethnic Relations

	Table of Contents
	Introduction	1
	The Old Country
	Counterattack	5
	See the Drunken Gentiles	7
	My Father and Mother	9
	My Father in the New World
	Father in Chicago	15
	The Lonely Years	17
	The Journey
	Little Grandmother	23
	Crossing the Atlantic	25
	The Journey Continued	28
	The Arrival	31
	Trapped in a Strange Land
	Worlds Apart	35
	The Harvest	36
	Two Worlds	39
	Stranger	41
	The Pollack House	43
	Revelation	46
	A New Life
	School Days	51
	First Generation American	53
	Yiddishe Mamma	55
	The Knipple	57
	Food	59
	Siblings	61
	The Mikvah	63
	Jews and Gentiles
	Neighbors	69
	Rabbi Hess	70
	Keeping House	72
	The Party	73
	The Melting Pot	75
	Separateness	77
	Winter
	Snowbound	81
	The Blizzard	82
	Charlie	84
	Holy Days
	Spring and Passover	89
	Heritage and Tradition	91
	The Double Wedding	95
	A Town is Born
	Wing, North Dakota	101
	Civilization	102
	The Fourth of July	105
	August 1914	107
	The Peddler	109
	Reading and Writing	112
	Camille	113
	Brief Encounter	115
	Beautiful Dreamer	118
	The War Years
	1917	125
	My Friend	127
	Wartime Harvest	128
	My Teacher	133
	Graduation Day	135
	Remembering
	Vanished Past	141
	The Gingham Dress	142
	Chokecherries on the Hill	144
	Years Later
	Only Human	149
	The Black Years	150
	Strangers No Longer	151
	Israel	152

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