Our Father Abe: The Story of a Deaf Shoe Repairman |  | Authors: Harvey L. Barash, Eva Barash Dicker
Publisher: Abar Press
Category: Book
Buy New: $221.31
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Avg. Customer Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 558234
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 272
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 6 x 0.7
ISBN: 0962963410
Dewey Decimal Number: 305.908162
EAN: 9780962963414
ASIN: 0962963410
Publication Date: November 1991
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gripping read, at the intersection of personal history and cultural history January 11, 2006
I stumbled on "Our Father Abe: The Story of a Deaf Shoe Repairman" at the library looking for memoirs and passing the local history display.
It's a gripping read! the authors, Abe's two children, have done an excellent job of storytelling, with a frank and graceful touch.
This is a book poised at the intersection of personal history and cultural history. Abe (born 1900s to Russian Jews) lost his hearing before acquiring language, then went on to experience everything Jews in the 20th c. emigrating from Europe & landing in the midwest went through, but with the challenge of deafness in tow.
This book would be of interest to the Deaf community as much as it is to the Jewish community or to memoir writers like me.
A testament to the personal desire to publish, and the good that can radiate into the world from such a desire.
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