Forgetting Fathers : Untold Stories from an Orphaned Past.
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TextSeries: Excelsior Editions SeriesPublisher: Albany : State University of New York Press, 2015Copyright date: ©2016Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (348 pages)Content type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781438458939
- Marshall, David, 1953--Family
- Marshall family
- Hebrew Orphan Asylum of New York
- Jews--New York (State)--New York--Biography
- Jewish orphanages--New York (State)--New York--Biography
- Jews, Belarusian--New York (State)--New York--Biography
- Death certificates--New York (State)--New York
- New York (N.Y.)--Biography
- 974.700492/4
- F128.9.J5M36 2016
Intro -- Contents -- Note to the Reader -- Preface -- 1. Presented to David Marshall -- 2. Finding Names -- 3. Inscribing Names -- 4. A Posthumous Child -- 5. Traces of the Father -- 6. Traces of the Tailor: Becoming a Contractor -- 7. Traces of the Tailor: On Strike -- 8. Special Circumstances of the Case -- 9. Reading the Death Certificate -- 10. Reading the Death Certificate: The Place of Death -- 11. Reading the Death Certificate: The Name of the Physician -- 12. Reading the Death Certificate: The Name of the Disease -- 13. The Case of H. W. -- 14. The Pavilion for the Insane -- 15. The Place of Burial: Machpelah -- 16. Saying Kaddish for a Ghost -- 17. Picturing a Future -- 18. Picturing a Past -- 19. A Ghost and a Memory -- 20. Searches and Signs -- 21. Returning to Machpelah -- Notes.
An eloquent personal reflection on the fascination of family history and the desire to both discover and escape origins.
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