TY - SER
KW - immigrants
KW - Great Depression, The
KW - World War II
KW - anti-Semitism
KW - Jewish Americans
AU - Chester Aaron
AB - Eight-year-old Benjamin Kahn is the son in an immigrant Jewish family which runs a small general store in fictitious Sundown, a coal town just north of Butler. Each of 13 chapter-stories focuses on a different member of, or person involved with, the Kahn family.
C1 - 1932-42
C3 - Butler County; Connoquenessing Creek; Butler
C4 - Literary; Coming-of-Age; Bildungsroman
CY - New York
LA - English
M3 - Novel
N2 - Eight-year-old Benjamin Kahn is the son in an immigrant Jewish family which runs a small general store in fictitious Sundown, a coal town just north of Butler. Each of 13 chapter-stories focuses on a different member of, or person involved with, the Kahn family.
PB - McGraw-Hill
PP - New York
PY - 1967
RN - Chester Aaron (1923-2019) graduated from Butler High School in 1941 before earning degrees from UCLA and the University of California at Berkeley. He joined the U.S. Army and his unit was part of the liberation of Jews in the Dachau Concentration Camp. Aaron taught English at Saint Mary's College, retiring in 1997. For years he was an expert garlic farmer in Sonoma County, California.
EP - 239 p.
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