Jacob's cane : a Jewish family's journey from the four lands of Lithuania to the ports of London and Baltimore / Elisa New

Publication | Library Call Number: F189.B19 J56 2009

Format: Book
Author/Creator: New, Elisa.
Published: New York : Basic Books, c2009
Includes bibliographical references
Language: English

Physical Description: v, 328 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Contents: Initials
From Shavli, in Lita
From the river Bug to Riga
The free Hanseatic city of Balt-ee-mewer
That bewitching vegetable
What is to be done?
Beautiful machines
What she wears, what he wears
The social-eest
Mother earth
The arcadia works
Jacob's cane
Blitzkrieg Barbarossa
Yellow star, gold star
We expand from shrinking.
ISBN: 9780465015252
0465015255 (alk. paper)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Subjects: Jews--Maryland--Baltimore--Biography.
Jewish businesspeople--Maryland--Biography.
Jews--Lithuania--Biography.
Levy family.
Barron family.
New, Elisa--Family.
New, Elisa--Travel--Lithuania--Anecdotes.
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