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The invisible wall : a love story that broke barriers Cover Image Book

The invisible wall : a love story that broke barriers

Bernstein, Harry 1910-2011 (Author).

Summary: The narrow street where Harry Bernstein grew up, in a small English mill town, was identical to countless other streets in countless other working-class neighborhoods of the early 1900s, except for the "invisible wall" that ran down its center, dividing Jewish families on one side from Christian families on the other. On the eve of World War I, Harry's family struggles to make ends meet. His father earns little money at the Jewish tailoring shop and brings home even less, preferring to spend his wages drinking and gambling. Harry's mother, devoted to her children and fiercely resilient, survives on her dreams: new shoes that might secure Harry's admission to a fancy school; that her daughter might marry the local rabbi; that the entire family might one day go to America. Then Harry's older sister does the unthinkable: she falls in love with a Christian boy from across the street.--From publisher description.

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  • ISBN: 9780345495808
  • ISBN: 0345495802
  • Physical Description: print
    xi, 297 pages ; 22 cm
  • Edition: First edition
  • Publisher: New York : Ballantine Books, [2007]

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950L Lexile

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Bernstein, Harry 1910-2011 Childhood and youth
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Authors, American 20th century Biography
Jews England Biography
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Lancashire (England) Social life and customs
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Autobiographies.

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