Tell Us About... A Memoir - Couverture souple

Beja, Morris

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1456748521 ISBN 13 : 9781456748524

Editeur : AuthorHouse, 2011

Synopsis

Tell Us About ... A Memoir By Morris Beja AuthorHouse Copyright ? 2011 Morris Beja All right reserved. ISBN: 978-1-4567-4852-4 Chapter One The Family We were a family of five: my father, Joseph Beja; my mother, Eleanor Cohen Beja; my older sisters, Rachel?the oldest child?and Rebecca; and me. To Rae and Bette (those were the names they chose to go by; I was just Morris) and to me, our parents were always Papa and Mama. Papa was born in 1897 on the island of Chios, then part of Turkey, although he was Greek. Mama, Greek as well, was also born in Turkey, in 1900 in Smyrna, now Izmir. (I've long gotten a kick out of the fact that the two most traditional sites for the birthplace of Homer have been Chios?"rocky Chios" in the Odyssey ?and Smyrna.) My parents were Sephardic Jews: that is, descendants of the Jews who had been expelled from Spain and Portugal at the end of the fifteenth century. Papa came to the United States in 1916, at the age of nineteen, on his own, on the * the Vacilefs Constantino . He was one of eight surviving children (five boys and three girls) of Morris Beja and Miriam Issachar. In the order of their birth the children were Ralph, Esther, Julia, Joseph, Isaac, Jack, Matilda, and Seymour. I was told that Ralph and Jack left Chios to avoid military service, but I never heard that about Papa. I do have a digital copy of his draft card during World War I (and one for World War II as well). Apparently Morris was not a very good or conscientious father or husband, and after a time Miriam followed her children, all of whom immigrated to the United States: I remember being told that he "sent" her to America. Like the vast majority of Jews who came through New York City in those years, my family all stayed there. In the early decades of the twentieth century, one quarter of the population of the city were Jews, although relatively few of them were Sephardim. Miriam died in New York in the e

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: AuthorHouse
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1456748521
• ISBN 13: 9781456748524
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 132
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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