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The Peddler's Grandson: Growing Up Jewish in Mississippi
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The Peddler's Grandson: Growing Up Jewish in Mississippi Paperback - 2002

by Cohen, Edward

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As a young child in Mississippi, Edward Cohen thought everyone was Jewish until he began school during the explosive civil rights era. Painfully funny, "The Peddler's Grandson" shows so much of what is different between people, and yet, in the end, reveals what makes us all the same.

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  • Title The Peddler's Grandson: Growing Up Jewish in Mississippi
  • Author Cohen, Edward
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Condition New
  • Pages 216
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Delta, New York
  • Date 2002-01-02
  • Features Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # Q-0385335911
  • ISBN 9780385335911 / 0385335911
  • Weight 0.54 lbs (0.24 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.08 x 5.01 x 0.52 in (20.52 x 12.73 x 1.32 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Deep South
    • Cultural Region: Mid-South
    • Cultural Region: South
    • Ethnic Orientation: Jewish
    • Geographic Orientation: Mississippi
    • Religious Orientation: Jewish
  • Library of Congress subjects Jackson (Miss.), Cohen, Edward
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2002280692
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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From the jacket flap

Edward Cohen was among the tiny minority of Jews in Jackson, Mississippi, the heart of the Bible Belt. As a child, he grew up singing "Dixie"in his segregated school and saying "sh'ma in synagogue. And in his powerful, luminous memoir, Cohen tells a story as universal as it is particular, at once a deeply personal account of growing up an outsider and a vibrant family story of three generations of American Jews.
To Edward Cohen, it seemed the entire world was Jewish. Then he went to school, where he was the only child who didn't bow his head during Christian prayers, the only child not invited to dance class.
As the polite '50s segued into the racially explosive '60s, Jackson, Mississippi, would never be the same. And Edward would escape to the University of Miami in search of a new identity.
There, he thought he would find other Jews and finally gain the acceptance he never had. But once again he found himself an outsider -- this time as a southerner.
A stirring memoir for anyone who's ever felt a loss of identity or pressure to conform, The Peddler's Grandson is sure to touch readers everywhere who have grappled with who they are.

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Media reviews

“This thoughtful and beautifully written memoir is a revelation about the allure of assimilation and the evasiveness of identity.”
Booklist

“Vividly detailed ... sometimes painfully funny, sometimes painfully honest ... you walk away from The Peddler’s Grandson with a sense of the importance of making a separate peace, and understanding that a person can be defined not by how he fits into the world, but by how he stands defiant in the face of a world apart.”
USA Today

Citations

  • Booksense '76 Jan/Feb 2002, 01/01/2002, Page 1

About the author

Edward Cohen was the head writer for Missippi Educational Television, where he wrote and produced several award-winning PBS documentaries. His memoir, The Peddler's Grandson: Growing Up Jewish in Mississippi, won the awards for best nonfiction of 2000 from both Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters and the Mississippi Library Association. He is a writer and filmmaker living in Venice, California.