China Dreams: Growing Up Jewish in Tientsin (Singular Lives)

310 Pages·1996·1.29 MB·English

by  Isabelle Maynard

China Dreams : Growing Up Jewish in
title:
Tientsin Singular Lives
author: Maynard, Isabelle.
publisher: University of Iowa Press
isbn10 | asin: 0877455716
print isbn13: 9780877455714
ebook isbn13: 9781587291449
language: English
Jews--China--Tianjin--Biography, Tianjin
subject
(China)--Biography.
publication date: 1996
lcc: DS135.C5M39 1996eb
ddc: 951/.154004924/00922
Jews--China--Tianjin--Biography, Tianjin
subject:
(China)--Biography.
Page i
China Dreams
Page ii
Singular Lives:
The Iowa Series in
North American Autobiography
ALBERT E. STONE,
SERIES EDITOR
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China Dreams
Growing Up Jewish in Tientsin
By Isabelle Maynard
Foreword by Albert E. Stone
University of Iowa Press Iowa City
Page iv
University of Iowa Press Iowa City 52242 Copyright © 1996 by the
University of Iowa Press All rights reserved Printed in the United
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Many of the names in this book have been changed to protect the
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Printed on acid-free paper
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Maynard, Isabelle, 1929-
China dreams: growing up Jewish in Tientsin / by Isabelle
Maynard.
p. cm.(Singular lives)
ISBN 0-87745-562-7 (cloth), ISBN 0-87745-571-6 (paper)
1. JewsChinaTientsinBiography. 2. Tientsin
(China)Biography. I. Title. II. Series.
DS135.C5M39 1996
951'.154004924'00922DC20
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Page v
To my parents,
SOPHIE AND DAVID ZIMMERMAN,
with love and admiration
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CONTENTS
Foreword by ix
Albert E. Stone
Acknowledgments xv
Prologue xvii
I. Beginnings
Origins 3
My Amah 10
First Day of School 13
Mimosas Provide Shade 15
Land of Outcasts 22
Braverman, DP 23
The Pig and I 35
Quarantine 37
Opaque Windows 49
Pei-tai-ho Summers 57
The Pursuit of Music 60
"We Must Return the Hospitality" 63
Figurines, Delicate 73
December 8, 1941 83
Page viii
II. Occupation
Men Talking 87
The Japanese Soldiers Who Came in the Night 90
Sammy 99
Brown Is the Color of My Betar Uniform 105
Red and Yellow 107
Taking a Bath 115
Carte Blanche 117
Graduation Night at Tientsin Jewish High 128
III. The War Is Over
Tuna, Corn, and Hershey's Kisses 137
The Leaving 139
The Hero of April 89 142
Salute to the Promised Land 157