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On Rockingham Street : reclaiming my family's Jewish identity -- our journey from Vilna to the suburban south /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kuney, David R.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Eugene, Oregon : Wipf & Stock, [2021]
Subjects:
Jewish families > United States > History.
Table of Contents:
  • On forgetting: Sol on Broadway (Chicago, 1930)
  • Vilna: the Jerusalem of Lithuania- intimations of the sacred (1890-1910)
  • Love and death in Vilna: reason enough to leave (1911-1913)
  • The journey: by land and by sea (1913)
  • Sol alone in Chicago (1913-1917)
  • Anna's last years in Vilna and her journey to Siberia (1913-1916)
  • Chasing chaim grade
  • Joseph and Esther: early years in Chicago (1917-1937)
  • The middle years in Chicago (1932-1946)
  • The end of Vilna as the Jerusalem of Lithuania (1941)
  • America goes to war: the second generation of Kuneys in America (1941)
  • The closing days of life in Chicago (1945-1947)
  • General Robert E. Lee's Arlington
  • The second migration: Chicago to Glebewood (1946-1952)
  • Rockingham Street: Vilna again? (1952)
  • Arlington-Fairfax Jewish Center (1950)
  • From colonial Jews to synagogue Jews (1958-1960)
  • Joe as president of the Center: the bland sixties (1960-1963)
  • A Jeffersonian Jew (1963)
  • The end of the Rockingham era (1965-1968)
  • Closing the boxes.