My Mother and I - Audiolibro Gratis

My Mother and I - Audiolibro Gratis

Autor(es): Elizabeth Gertrude Stern,

Idioma: English

1 / 11Foreward, The Kitchen

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11 Capítulo(s)
  • 1. Foreward, The Kitchen
  • 2. Playing Was Forbidden, Letters to Home
  • 3. The American Flag, A Baby Sister
  • 4. The Little Grey House, Little Women
  • 5. Girls Don't Go To High School
  • 6. A Sabbath Room
  • 7. College and the Cost of Dowries
  • 8. A 21st Birthday Party
  • 9. Leaving Home
  • 10. New York, Marriage
  • 11. Mother Visits Her Grandson

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Elizabeth Stern was two and a half years old, when her family emigrated from Poland to Pittsburgh. My Mother and I is the story of Stern's Americanization and how it ultimately alienated her from her parents. Stern's father had been a small village rabbi. Strict and traditional in his views, he sends Elizabeth to learn Hebrew at age four, so she can fulfill her destiny "as the wife of a rabbi or scholar," but he opposes letting her attend high school. Stern's mother tries fitfully to pry open doors for her daughter. When Stern's father finds Elizabeth reading a secular book, and, in a fit of rage, flings the offending novel onto the top of a tall bookcase, her mother climbs on a chair and retrieves it for her. But Stern's mother never learns English even as it becomes her daughter’s primary language--and she is burdened by endless pregnancies (she ultimately bears 11 children, only the first 4 of whom survive). Stern's relationship with her mother is loving, but when Elizabeth goes to college, they draw apart. Her mother becomes a "shadowy figure," standing with "questioning, puzzled eyes", eyes in which there is love, "but no understanding, and always an infinite loneliness." - Summary by Sue Anderson

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