A Stone in My Shoe: In Search of Neighborhood by George Ellenbogen Yiddish Learning 1903-1917 investigates how this change

1903-1917 investigates how this change in status occurred and three major figures responsible for its transformation

unravel a long and complicated history

and memories of the novel's narrator

his return to Vienna in recent years

Themes of repressed desire

A Stone in My Shoe: In Search of Neighborhood by George Ellenbogen Yiddish Learning 1903-1917 investigates how this changePoet George Ellenbogens memoir is more than a collection of anecdotes of his immigrant family and their journey from Franz Josephs Austro Hungarian empire to Montreal in the 1920s. A Stone in My Shoe charts his discovery of how an immigrant Jewish neighborhooda tight knit shtetl with extended families that had its own shops, institutions, and daily Yiddish newspaperssustained him and his family as well as thousands of others. The revelations ripple