A Stone in My Shoe: In Search of Neighborhood by George Ellenbogen Yiddish Learning unravel a long and complicated

unravel a long and complicated history

Merrill Rainey

and memories of the novel's narrator

poetic images by an internationally renowned artist

who grew up in a Lubavith sect in Brooklyn

A Stone in My Shoe: In Search of Neighborhood by George Ellenbogen Yiddish Learning unravel a long and complicatedPoet George Ellenbogens memoir is more than a collection of anecdotes of his immigrant family and their journey from Franz Josephs Austro Hungarian empire to Montreal in the 1920s. A Stone in My Shoe charts his discovery of how an immigrant Jewish neighborhooda tight knit shtetl with extended families that had its own shops, institutions, and daily Yiddish newspaperssustained him and his family as well as thousands of others. The revelations ripple