By Stella Suberman
For a true discount, when you are getting cash, you need to make additionally a life.--Aaron Bronson. In 1920, in small city the United States, the ever present dry items store--suits and coats, sneakers and hats, paintings outfits and college outfits, backyard items and notions--was often owned through Jews and sometimes often called "the Jew store." that is how Stella Suberman's father's shop, Bronson's cost-effective shop, in Concordia, Tennessee, used to be recognized in the community. The Bronsons have been the 1st Jews to ever dwell in that tiny city (1920 inhabitants: 5,318) of 1 major road, one financial institution, one drugstore, one photo exhibit, one feed and seed, one undefined, one barber store, one good looks parlor, one blacksmith, and lots of Christian church buildings. Aaron Bronson moved his kin all of the manner from manhattan urban to that distant nook of northwest Tennessee to turn out himself a born salesman--and even more. informed via Aaron's youngest baby, THE JEW shop is that infrequent thing--an intimate kin tale that sheds new gentle on a bit of yank historical past. here's ONE MAN'S relations with a twist--a Jew, born into poverty in prerevolutionary Russia and orphaned from beginning, unearths his technique to the USA, reveals a alternate, unearths a spouse, and units out to discover his fortune in a spot the place Jews are unwelcome. With a novelist's feel of scene, suspense, and principally, characterization, Stella Suberman turns the clock again to a time whilst rural the US was once extra peaceable yet no much less prejudiced, while proficient liberals have been suspect, and while the Klan used to be threatening to outsiders. In that atmosphere, she brings to lifestyles her striking father, a guy whose personal model of good fortune proves that intelligence, empathy, liberality, and decency can construct a house anyplace. THE JEW shop is a heartwarming--even inspiring--story.