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China Dreams : Growing Up Jewish in title: Tientsin Singular Lives author: Maynard, Isabelle. publisher: University of Iowa Press isbn10 | asin: 0877455716 print isbn13: 9780877455714 ebook isbn13: 9781587291449 language: English Jews--China--Tianjin--Biography, Tianjin subject (China)--Biography. publication date: 1996 lcc: DS135.C5M39 1996eb ddc: 951/.154004924/00922 Jews--China--Tianjin--Biography, Tianjin subject: (China)--Biography. Page i China Dreams Page ii Singular Lives: The Iowa Series in North American Autobiography ALBERT E. STONE, SERIES EDITOR Page iii China Dreams Growing Up Jewish in Tientsin By Isabelle Maynard Foreword by Albert E. Stone University of Iowa Press Iowa City Page iv University of Iowa Press Iowa City 52242 Copyright © 1996 by the University of Iowa Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America Design by Karen Copp No part of this book may be reproduced or used in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, without permission in writing from the publisher. All reasonable steps have been taken to contact copyright holders of material used in this book. The publisher would be pleased to make suitable arrangements with any whom it has not been possible to reach. Many of the names in this book have been changed to protect the privacy of the people portrayed. Printed on acid-free paper Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Maynard, Isabelle, 1929- China dreams: growing up Jewish in Tientsin / by Isabelle Maynard. p. cm.(Singular lives) ISBN 0-87745-562-7 (cloth), ISBN 0-87745-571-6 (paper) 1. JewsChinaTientsinBiography. 2. Tientsin (China)Biography. I. Title. II. Series. DS135.C5M39 1996 951'.154004924'00922DC20 [B] 96-24321 CIP 01 00 99 98 97 96 C 5 4 3 2 1 01 00 99 98 97 96 P 5 4 3 2 1 Page v To my parents, SOPHIE AND DAVID ZIMMERMAN, with love and admiration Page vii CONTENTS Foreword by ix Albert E. Stone Acknowledgments xv Prologue xvii I. Beginnings Origins 3 My Amah 10 First Day of School 13 Mimosas Provide Shade 15 Land of Outcasts 22 Braverman, DP 23 The Pig and I 35 Quarantine 37 Opaque Windows 49 Pei-tai-ho Summers 57 The Pursuit of Music 60 "We Must Return the Hospitality" 63 Figurines, Delicate 73 December 8, 1941 83 Page viii II. Occupation Men Talking 87 The Japanese Soldiers Who Came in the Night 90 Sammy 99 Brown Is the Color of My Betar Uniform 105 Red and Yellow 107 Taking a Bath 115 Carte Blanche 117 Graduation Night at Tientsin Jewish High 128 III. The War Is Over Tuna, Corn, and Hershey's Kisses 137 The Leaving 139 The Hero of April 89 142 Salute to the Promised Land 157
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