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Ebook About This debut memoir about a Jewish family pursuing the American Dream in the early twentieth century South is “vividly told and captivating in its humanity” (Kirkus Reviews).In small town America, in 1920, the ubiquitous dry goods store—selling suits and coats, shoes and hats, work clothes and school clothes, yard goods and notions—was usually owned by Jews and often referred to as “the Jew store.” That’s how Bronson’s Low-Priced Store, in Concordia, Tennessee—owned and run by Stella Suberman’s father—was known. The Bronsons were the first Jews to live in the tiny Southern town consisting of one main street, one bank, one drugstore, and many Christian churches. Born into poverty in prerevolutionary Russia, Aaron Bronson moved his family from New York City to that remote corner of northwest Tennessee to prove himself a born salesman—and much more.With a novelist’s sense of scene, suspense, and characterization, Stella Suberman turns the clock back to a time when educated liberals were suspect and the Klan was a major threat to outsiders. In that setting, she brings to life her remarkable father, a man whose own brand of success proves that intelligence, empathy, and decency can build a home anywhere.Book The Jew Store: A Family Memoir Review :
I lived in a community of mainly Catholics which was right next to a large Jewish neighborhood. We did not interact in any way, but of course I grew up being curious about the Jewish customs that I heard about. As a result I’ve always wanted to read books that satisfied my curiosity. As I began reading this book, i remembered that we had aJewish store on our Main Street that was very similar to Bronson’s. The interaction between the Southerns and Jews wasEye opening since nothing like that occurred in our neighborhood. This book would be a great book club choice. There are so many conflicts that we are still dealing with today that most people have opinions about. This book is a stunner. More than anything I've read before, "The Jew Store: A Family Memoir" affords a vivid sense of the lives of those Jews who, seeing economic opportunity in the rural South of the early 20th century, left their extended families in eastern cities and sought their fortunes in small rural towns of the American South, a world of WASPs. How such people lived has always intrigued me, and I've read many memoirs that chronicle their experience. Most have been stories either of successful accommodation or even integration into a new culture. Some have been stories of an alienation even in the face of economic success.In "The Jew Store" Suderman does a remarkable job of showing the clash of these two views within a family and the effects they have on children, thereby providing a vibrant, complex view seldom developed. Born in the South after her parents moved to West Tennessee to open a low-price dry goods store, Suderman sees and describes in rich detail the views both of her ambitious, optimistic Russian-born father, thrilled at the opportunity to advance economically, and her anxious, fearful Russian Jewish mother, burdened with the sense of her Jewishness and the virtual impossibility of preserving her heritage in a land peopled only by gentiles. This battle that lies at the heart of her memoir gives it the shape and tension of a novel---a novel that is almost impossible to put down. The Bronson's story is told with humor and wit and a decided attention to revealing details. Suderman gets the language down perfectly (What Southerner ever said "Ku Klux Klan," for instance? It's always "Klu Klux Klan"). She also gets the mannerisms and customs. What she tells, one senses, is the distillation of a family's stories told and retold, each time with a pleasure that recreates a past.In one sense, the drama played out in the Bronson household is not substantially different from that played out in America in its early years and thereafter. In the 1830's and 1840's, for instance, both Virginia and South Carolina lost population as members of the rising generation struck out for the newly opened lands of the Old Southwest. Diaries and letters show the grief and bitter loneliness the women experienced in leaving their homes, where they had been surrounded and supported in their roles by local custom and family, and moving to a hard life their grandparents had known. The men, however, expressed no yearning for home. In letters, they repeatedly made clear they wanted to be free of family and custom and the obligations those imposed on their behaviors. They were exhilarated by the chance to establish themselves as individuals, something the constraint of family custom and mores made difficult. The same pattern was seen further north, for instance, as Connecticut emptied itself into the Western Reserve. It's an American pattern. Led by the desire for economic improvement and independence, men are invigorated by such moves. Women, on whom the burden of transmitting the family culture falls, yearn for the support of their mothers and grandmothers.Yet the Bronsons' experience also differs from the average American transplant's experience. For the Bronsons are Jewish, and the place to which they move, solidly Christian and Protestant, run by a clatch of petty men united by prejudice and property and an interest in the status quo. And the family's internal drama is matched by their outside maneuverings within that place. Whether Aaron Bronson would even be permitted to rent a store space had nothing to do with his ability to pay rent, everything to do with one of the town bullies and bigots. And then, the store stocked and ready for its first day's opening, the question of whether the KKK would permit townspeople to buy there remained in doubt until mid-morning. Without the guidance and affection of the woman to whose house they were directed for shelter when they arrived in town and with whom they lived for several years, Miss Brookie, they might not have made it. While a native and member of an old family, Miss Brookie had studied at the University of Chicago, where she had a Jewish roommate, known a world bigger than the town limits. Miss Brookie was a woman, however, and thus her power was limited. And Miss Brookie was sui generis in Concordia,TN.A WASP myself, though from a place and time in the South very different from the world of rural west Tennessee, I confess I was surprised by Reba Bronson's view of Gentiles, which was only scarcely less bigoted than the town's view of its black citizens or of Jews . It was virtually intransigent. In time she made friends in the neighborhood and town, but always uppermost in her mind was the worry that her children were not getting the proper Jewish upbringing, that they must not take up the ways of their gentile friends, that everybody in the family kept in mind that Concordia, TN, was only a temporary arrangement. Home was New York City and the Bronx and a world of first-generation Jewish mothers and grandmothers---and a Rabbi's wife to serve tea and advice to them. Everything from sweet pickles to iced tea struck her not merely as differences in regional tastes, but as a major violation of ethics and decency. In her mind, Jewish meant civilized. Her provincialism contrasted sharply with the broader and more benevolent views of her husband, but he had business: she had the family.As a Southerner, I was also interested in aspects of this book only tangentially related to the story. In my lifetime and where I've lived, the KKK has always been a joke. In the seventies and eighties and perhaps even now, a group gathered every now and again on the city hall square of a nearby city to protest something, but nobody paid any attention to what, and I don't think many remembered a time when the group had held the power they held in 1920s Concordia, TN. The very title, "The Jew Store," shocked my sensibilities. And I still find it hard to imagine that little children were told Jewish people had horns. Growing up in a area whose major city was a river city, I'd known people from all sorts of ethnic groups, all of them proud of their heritage. So the world this book opened was novel. I'd read of it in history books, but that was bloodless knowledge. In this book that world pulsed.I finished "The Jew Store" five days ago, but it lives in my head and, I think, will continue to live there, shaping my view and understanding of the world. 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