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A Man Comes from Someplace

Stories, History, Memory from a Lost Time

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  1. Judith Pearl Summerfield
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  • From oral stories, family letters, and other primary sources, a scholar of narrative studies constructs a compelling narrative of her international Jewish family from pre-Revolutionary Russia to the present.

Part of the book series: Transgressions (TRANS, volume 108)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxiv
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  2. Time and Place

    • Judith Pearl Summerfield
    Pages 1-9

  3. Family

    • Judith Pearl Summerfield
    Pages 11-31

  4. End of a World

    • Judith Pearl Summerfield
    Pages 33-57

  5. Going to America

    • Judith Pearl Summerfield
    Pages 59-75

  6. A Brother’s Keeper

    • Judith Pearl Summerfield
    Pages 77-90

  7. A Man Without Papers

    • Judith Pearl Summerfield
    Pages 91-107

  8. Immigrant Life

    • Judith Pearl Summerfield
    Pages 109-121

  9. Finding a Place

    • Judith Pearl Summerfield
    Pages 123-141

  10. Holding on to the Past

    • Judith Pearl Summerfield
    Pages 143-153

  11. Return to the Old Country

    • Judith Pearl Summerfield
    Pages 155-172

  12. The Place Itself

    • Judith Pearl Summerfield
    Pages 173-201

  13. Stories to Grow On

    • Judith Pearl Summerfield
    Pages 203-219

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 221-226
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About this book

A Man Comes from Someplace: Stories, History, Memory from a Lost Timeis a cultural study of a multi-generational Jewish family from a shtetl in southwestern Ukraine before World War I to their international lives in the 21st century.The narrative, told from multiple perspectives, becomes a transformative space for re-presenting family stories as cultural performance. The studydraws from many sources: ethnographic interviews with an oral storyteller (the author’s father), family letters, papers from immigration and relief organizations of the 1920s, eyewitness reports, newspaper clippings, photographs, maps, genealogy, and cultural, historical, and literary research. The book investigates the ways family stories can be collected, interpreted, and re-presented to situate story in history and to re-envision connections between the past, present, and future. Family stories become memory sites for interrogating questions of loss and displacement, exile, immigration, survival, resilience, and identity. Stories function as antidotes to trauma, a means of making sense of the world. Memoryis an act of resistance, the refusal to be silenced or erased, the insistence that we know the past and remember those who came before. Judith Pearl Summerfield,Professor Emerita in English, Queens College, The City University of New York, is the recipient of numerous awards and grants for teaching, scholarship, and research. She has written extensively about rhetoric, composition, narrative studies, and education. In 2011, she found her way back to the place her family had come from in Ukraine.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: A Man Comes from Someplace

  • Book Subtitle: Stories, History, Memory from a Lost Time

  • Authors: Judith Pearl Summerfield

  • Series Title: Transgressions

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-190-8

  • Publisher: SensePublishers Rotterdam

  • eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: SensePublishers-Rotterdam, The Netherlands 2015

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-6300-190-8Published: 21 July 2015

  • Series ISSN: 2214-9732

  • Series E-ISSN: 2214-9740

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXIV, 226

  • Topics: Education, general

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