A Titanic Love Story: Ida and Isidor Straus
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| Rating | : | 4.96 (729 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0881462772 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 288 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-02-27 |
| Language | : | English |
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A Titanic Love Story emphasizes their work together as a couple, focusing not only on Isidor s important roles as businessman, member of congress, and philanthropist, but also on Ida s contributions as an intelligent partner, the soul of the household, and matriarch of the family, as well as a stalwart supporter of her husband and one who engaged in philanthropic and creative activities of her own.The Strauses were wealthy Jews within their New York community, and as people committed to the welfare of their family, their city, their country, and those less fortunate than themselves, they dealt with their own grief, illness, and occasional brushes with anti-Semitism. The public outpouring of grief at their deaths, even by today s standards of over-the-top journalism, was remarkable.. A Titanic Love Story follows the Strauses life from Talbotton, Georgia, where an anti-Semitic incident caused them to move to nearby Columbus. This book traces the life of Isidor and Ida Straus, both German Jewish immigrants who arrived as children in America in the early 1850s. The devastation of Columbus at the end of the Civil War brought the family to New York, where Isidor met and eventually married the young Ida Blun.Ida and Isidor balanced the demands of business, family, and service to others and carved out their individual ro
A Titanic Love Story Story Circle Book Reviews McCash has written an engrossing, deeply researched story of a well-to-do Jewish couple, Isador Straus and Ida Blun Straus, which opens in the mid-1800's and concludes with their deaths on the Titanic.Straus' father, Lazarus, immigrated to the United States an. The Titanic, a Huge Ship and a Larger-than-Life Love Story This book tells the story of an immigrant family, the members of which fulfilled the American dream of riches and social standing in spite of the prejudice against Jewish people which marred the history of the United States in the early twentieth century. They. Harold P. Kurzman said Straus Love Story. An extraordinary biography, which has been carefully researched, by an author, co-author or editor of 6 non-fictional works and a historical novel, for which she won the "Straus Love Story" according to Harold P. Kurzman. An extraordinary biography, which has been carefully researched, by an author, co-author or editor of 6 non-fictional works and a historical novel, for which she won the 2011 Georgia Author of the Year Award . The book reveals that while successful in business. 011 Georgia Author of the Year Award . The book reveals that while successful in business
June McCash excels in telling this touching and absorbing tale."-James C. Cobb, Spalding Distinguished Professor of History, University of Georgia, and author of The South and America Since World War II. "From tiny Talbotton, Georgia, to Macy's and New York's Upper West Side, to their last moments together in the icy waters of the North Atlantic, the love story of Ida and Isidor Straus is also a story of America as a land of both prejudice and opportunity, and a remarkable family whose generosity and compassion helped to make it a better place for so many others