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Empire of Their Own, A Book Review
Book Review:
How I Came Into My Inheritance
How
I Came Into My Inheritance: And Other True Stories by
Dorothy Gallagher (Random House 2001)
In this collection of
short non-fiction, Dorothy Gallagher explores the history of her
family -- from their immigration to America to their small everyday
hurts -- and how their history shaped her life.
It is Ms. Gallagher's memoir of sorts, though the pieces are not
chronologically ordered, but rather focus on specific moments in the
lives of her parents, aunts, uncles and sometimes the author
herself.
With wry humor but sympathetic and loving approach, Ms. Gallagher
regales the reader with stories of her parent's beginning in
America, to the adventures of her extended family. She tells about
he aunt Lilly's business transactions with prostitutes and of a
family friend who is found murdered in his bath tub. She recalls her
cousin Mayer's trip to the old country where he finds his family
starving, and exposes us to the family's communist ideology to which
they cling. Thus we travel from a small town in the Ukraine to the
lower East side of New York and back again. We are transported from
the mass executions in Odessa to the beginning of Stalin's reign in
Russia to the McCarthy era in the USA to present day.
These entertaining and episodes, put together convey a larger story,
a story of a generation experiencing the history of the Jews in
America, the acclimation into American culture as well as the
author's journey to independence. A very Jewish American experience.
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