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“Aunt”
― Stella Suberman, The Jew Store: A Family Memoir

“My salad days, when I was green in judgment.”
― Stella Suberman, When It Was Our War: A Soldier's Wife on the Home Front

“what with the Rastows having a house—all at once my father was agitating for a house of our own. He put it to my mother. “We ain’t poor, so why should we live like we are?” My mother sent up a wail. “Leave Miss Brookie?” One thing my mother kept hold of: There was to be”
― Stella Suberman, The Jew Store: A Family Memoir

“Stella Suberman's Suggestions for Further Reading
The Peddler's Grandson: Growing Up Jewish in Mississippi, by Edward Cohen
The Provincials: A Personal History of Jews in the South, by Eli N. Evans
Insecure Prosperity, by Ewa Morawska
The Slow Way Back, by Judy Goldman”
― Stella Suberman, The Jew Store

“Discrimination could show itself in exceedingly rank ways. Hotels with signs that stated No Jews Allowed were commonplace, and one hotel advertised with the slogan, Always A View, Never A Jew.”
― Stella Suberman, When It Was Our War: A Soldier's Wife on the Home Front