Dear Lizzie: Memoir of a Jewish Immigrant Woman

by Leona Tamarkin, Elizabeth Reis (Editor)

Leona Tamarkin recounts her ordeal as a Jewish refugee during the First World War and her life as a young immigrant in America after 1920. Tamarkin's narrative rings with determination, will to live, and boldness, even within confining circumstances. First conveyed as a letter from a grandmother to her then fifteen-year-old granddaughter, Lizzie, the memoir offers a story too painful to say out loud but too important to be left unsaid. More than simply a family story, Tamarkin's written words bring immediacy and humanity to distant historical events.

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First published December 20, 2000

Reviews

[Molly]

I read this book for a women and gender studies class. It was pretty interesting and went at a quick pace. It was nice to read a memoir from someone who lived during WW1 in Poland and emigrated to America.