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"Stella Suberman recalls her youth in 1920s Concordia, Tennessee, where her father, a Jewish immigrant from Russia, ran a dry goods store, which became locally known as "the Jew store" in the predominantly Christian small town."
"Stella Suberman recalls her youth in 1920s Concordia, Tennessee, where her father, a Jewish immigrant from Russia, ran a dry goods store, which became locally known as "the Jew store" in the predominantly Christian small town."@en
"The Bronsons were the first Jews to ever live in the small town of Concordia, Tennessee-a town consisting of one main street, one bank, one drugstore, one picture show, one feed and seed, one hardware store, one beauty parlor, one barber shop, one blacksmith, and many Christian churches. That didn't stop Aaron Bronson, a Russian immigrant, from moving his young family out of New York by horse and wagon and journeying to this remote corner of the South to open a small dry goods store, Bronson's Low-Priced Store. Never mind that he was greeted with Danged if I ever heard tell of a Jew storekeeper afore. Never mind that all the townspeople were suspicious of any strangers. Never mind that the Klan actively discouraged the presence of outsiders. Aaron Bronson bravely established a business and proved in the process that his family could make a home, and a life, anywhere. With great fondness and a fine dry wit, Stella Suberman tells the story of her family in an account that Kirkus Reviews, in a starred review, described as a gem...Vividly told and captivating in its humanity. Now available for the first time in paperback, here is the book that the Atlanta Journal-Constitution said was forthright. . . . not a revisionist history of Jewish life in the small-town South but . . . written within the context of the 1920s, making it valuable history as well as a moving family story."
""For a real bargain, while you're making a living, you should make also a life." --Aaron Bronson. In 1920, in small town America, the ubiquitous dry goods store--suits and coats, shoes and hats, work clothes and school clothes, yard goods and notions--was usually owned by Jews and often referred to as "the Jew store." That's how Stella Suberman's father's store, Bronson's Low-Priced Store, in Concordia, Tennessee, was known locally. The Bronsons were the first Jews to ever live in that tiny town (1920 population: 5,318) of one main street, one bank, one drugstore, one picture show, one feed and seed, one hardware, one barber shop, one beauty parlor, one blacksmith and many Christian churches. Aaron Bronson moved his family all the way from New York City to that remote corner of northwest Tennessee to prove himself a born salesman--and much more. Told by Aaron's youngest child, The Jew Store is that rare thing--an intimate family story that sheds new light on a piece of American history. Here is one man's family with a twist--a Jew, born into poverty in pre-revolutionary Russia and orphaned from birth, finds his way to America, finds a trade, finds a wife and sets out to find his fortune in a place where Jews are unwelcome. With a novelist's sense of scene, suspense and above all, characterization, Stella Suberman turns the clock back to a time when rural America was more peaceful but no less prejudiced, when educated liberals were suspect and when the Klan was threatening to outsiders. In that setting, she brings to life her remarkable father, a man whose own brand of success proves that intelligence, empathy, liberality and decency can build a home anywhere. The Jew Store is a heartwarming--even inspiring--story."@en

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