The Invisible Wall
by Harry Bernstein
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Book Summary Information
Author: Harry BernsteinEdition: Kindle Edition
Audio: English (Published)
Format: Kindle eBook
Published: 2007-03-20
ISBN: N/A
Number of pages: 320
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Book Reviews of The Invisible Wall
Book Review: Excellent book. Not, to be missed.
Summary: 5 Stars
I started reading this book while on a trip to New York. I stopped reading it in New York. The trip I was on was depressing enough and reading the book at that time would only have depressed me more. Fortunately, when I got home and things were back to normal. I picked the book up again. I am so happy I did. Harry's writing, he makes you feel as though you are a first name basis with him. Harry gives you the feeling of experiencing the things of that he goes through as though you him. Few writer's have done that too me. I read a lot, everything and anything. I enjoy reading that much. I must admit Harry's books are special.
The best part is, Harry was wonderful enough to write another book which takes off just where the "Invisiable Wall" ends. My husband had just bought me a kindle. The first kindle book I bought was "The Dream." Harry's second book was just as wonderful as his first. All I can say is, thank you Harry, for letting us into your life through your books.
Most sincerely,
ECA
Summary of The Invisible Wall
?There are places that I have never forgotten. A little cobbled street in a smoky mill town in the North of England has haunted me for the greater part of my life. It was inevitable that I should write about it and the people who lived on both sides of its ?Invisible Wall.? ?The narrow street where Harry Bernstein grew up, in a small English mill town, was seemingly unremarkable. It 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. Only a few feet of cobblestones separated Jews from Gentiles, but socially, it they were miles apart.
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 be whisked off to the paradise of America.
Then Harry?s older sister, Lily, does the unthinkable: She falls in love with Arthur, a Christian boy from across the street.
When Harry unwittingly discovers their secret affair, he must choose between the morals he?s been taught all his life, his loyalty to his selfless mother, and what he knows to be true in his own heart.
A wonderfully charming memoir written when the author was ninety-three, The Invisible Wall vibrantly brings to life an all-but-forgotten time and place. It is a moving tale of working-class life, and of the boundaries that can be overcome by love.
From the Hardcover edition.
?There are places that I have never forgotten. A little cobbled street in a smoky mill town in the North of England has haunted me for the greater part of my life. It was inevitable that I should write about it and the people who lived on both sides of its ?Invisible Wall.? ?
The narrow street where Harry Bernstein grew up, in a small English mill town, was seemingly unremarkable. It 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. Only a few feet of cobblestones separated Jews from Gentiles, but socially, it they were miles apart.
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 be whisked off to the paradise of America.
Then Harry?s older sister, Lily, does the unthinkable: She falls in love with Arthur, a Christian boy from across the street.
When Harry unwittingly discovers their secret affair, he must choose between the morals he?s been taught all his life, his loyalty to his selfless mother, and what he knows to be true in his own heart.
A wonderfully charming memoir written when the author was ninety-three, The Invisible Wall vibrantly brings to life an all-but-forgotten time and place. It is a moving tale of working-class life, and of the boundaries that can be overcome by love.
From the Hardcover edition.
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