I Have a Story to Tell You
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I Have a Story to Tell You

  1. 324 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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I Have a Story to Tell You

About this book

I Have a Story to Tell You is about Eastern European Jewish immigrants living in Montreal, Toronto, and Winnipeg in the early twentieth century. The stories encompass their travels and travails on leaving home and their struggles in the sweatshops and factories of the garment industry in Canada. Basing her work on extensive interviews, Seemah Berson recreates these immigrants' stories about their lives in the Old Country and the hardship of finding work in Canada, and she tells how many of these newcomers ended up in the needle trades. Revealing a fervent sense of socialist ideology acquired in the crucible of the Russian Revolution, the stories tell of the influence of Jewish culture and traditions, of personal–and organized–fights against exploitation, and of struggles to establish unions for better working conditions.

This book is a wonderful resource for teachers of Canadian, Jewish, and social history, as well as auto/biography and cultural studies. The simplicity of the language, transcribed from oral reports, makes this work accessible to anyone who enjoys a good story.

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Preface
  3. Acknowledgements
  4. Introduction
  5. Rose Kaplan Barkusky
  6. Rose Gordon
  7. Haskell (Harry) Ullman
  8. Muriel Grad
  9. Fanny (Baba) Osipov
  10. Abe Smith
  11. David Shaya Kirman
  12. Rose Smith
  13. Nina Dolgoy Ullman
  14. Sidney Sarkin
  15. Mr. Shano
  16. Sam Greenberg
  17. Pauline Chudnovsky
  18. Bluma Kogan
  19. Norman Massey
  20. Albert Abramowitz
  21. Lil Abramowitz
  22. Max Dolgoy
  23. James (Jimmy) Blugerman
  24. Samuel Nemetz
  25. Sylvia Grafstein Klein
  26. Molly Klein Goldsman
  27. Rose Esterson
  28. Joshua (Joe) Gershman
  29. Jennie Zelda Litvak
  30. Hyman Leibovitch
  31. Ena Ship
  32. Masha Goldkind
  33. Mary Kevalko
  34. Max Povitz
  35. Art Browner
  36. Bertha Dolgoy Guberman
  37. Max Yellen
  38. Dave Ship
  39. Ben Abrams
  40. Abraham Taylor
  41. Simon Harris
  42. Conclusion
  43. Notes
  44. Glossary
  45. Photographs