Songs of Memory
Miami: Jewish Museum of Florida, 2002. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 286pp. Original photo-illustrated dustjacket over black cloth with gilt ruling on cover and spine. Color illustrated title page. "Well over 800 members of the Wien family have been found during a 21 month search into the past. This record of many lives begins in the pale of Settlement in Ukraine, Lithuania and Poland in the 1820s. It ends in the present. These stories of the Wien family and its branches contain many answers as to why they left their homes and lives in Europe to come to America, how they lived once they got here and how they brought up their children. The Wiens became a proud part of America as they changed its landscape as well" (publisher). Profusely illustrated with hundreds of color and b/w photographs depicting members of the family with descriptions of the lives and times of various family branches. Includes cemetery listings of family members buried, photographs of grave stones and index at rear. DJ rubbed with light wear along edges. DJ in overall good+, binding and interior in very good condition. g+ to vg. Item #38139
Price: $50.00