The Peddler's Grandson
Growing Up Jewish in Mississippi
$25.73
- Paperback
216 pages
- Release Date
2 January 2002
Summary
Edward Cohen was among the tiny minority of Jews in Jackson, Mississippi, the heart of the Bible Belt. As a child, he grew up singing “Dixie” in his segregated school and saying sh’ma in synagogue. And in his powerful, luminous memoir, Cohen tells a story as universal as it is particular, at once a deeply personal account of growing up an outsider and a vibrant family story of three generations of American Jews.
To Edward Cohen, it seemed the entire world was Jewish. Then he went to s…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780385335911 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0385335911 |
| Author: | Edward Cohen |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Random House USA Inc |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 216 |
| Release Date: | 2 January 2002 |
| Weight: | 213g |
| Dimensions: | 13mm x 126mm x 203mm |
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Critics Review
“This thoughtful and beautifully written memoir is a revelation about the allure of assimilation and the evasiveness of identity.”
— Booklist
“Vividly detailed … sometimes painfully funny, sometimes painfully honest … you walk away from The Peddler’s Grandson with a sense of the importance of making a separate peace, and understanding that a person can be defined not by how he fits into the world, but by how he stands defiant in the face of a world apart.”
— USA Today
Edward Cohen
Edward Cohen was the head writer for Missippi Educational Television, where he wrote and produced several award-winning PBS documentaries. His memoir, The Peddler’s Grandson: Growing Up Jewish in Mississippi, won the awards for best nonfiction of 2000 from both the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters and the Mississippi Library Association. He is a writer and filmmaker living in Venice, California.
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