
A Double Thread: Growing Up English And Jewish In London
This evocative picture of a lost London and a vanished culture is also the story of a bookish boy discovering his own path. John Gross is the son of a Jewish doctor who practiced in the East End of London from the 1920s to World War II and beyond. His parents were the children of immigrants, steeped in Eastern European customs, yet outside the home he grew up in a very English world of comics and ...
Hardcover: 208 pages
Publisher: Ivan R. Dee; Not Indicated edition (March 6, 2002)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1566634245
ISBN-13: 978-1566634243
Product Dimensions: 6.1 x 0.8 x 8.7 inches
Amazon Rank: 1738702
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“There are some who say one cannot possibly be English (British perhaps) and Jewish. John Gross gives the lie to that. The fact is that both cultures provide rich pickings.Strongly influenced by his father, a doctor who continued to practise in the Ea...”
orner shops, sandbags and bomb sites, battered school desks and addictive, dusty cinemas. Mr. Gross looks back on his childhood with humor and insight, tracing this double inheritance. Religion underpins family life: the richness of the Yiddish language, stories, jokes and music-hall humor, the rituals and mysteries of the synagogue, are set against the life of the streets, where boxers and gangsters are heroes and patients turn up on the doorstep at all hours. And in the background, behind the wit and the color, lie the shadows of anti-Semitism and the Holocaust.
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