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Bronx Primitive
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4 out of 5
Based on 242 Ratings and 26 Reviews

Book Description
The daughter of Polish Jewish immigrants, Kate Simon was brought up in a tenement block in the Bronx area of New York. Her vivid recollections of her childhood and adolescence are contained in Bronx Primitive and its sequel A Wider World. This is a riche and startlingly frank memoir in which Simon captures the immigrant neighborhood of her childhood in the Depression Years of the 1920's as well as... More
Book Information
PublisherVirgin Publishing
BindingHardcover (7 editions)
Reading LevelUncategorized
# of Pages304
ISBN-100245547444
ISBN-13978-0245547447
Publication Date/1989
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About Kate Simon (Author) : Kate Simon is a published author. Published credits of Kate Simon include Bronx Primitive - Portraits in a Childhood (Great Jewish Books on Audiotape) (Great Jewish Books on Audiotape).
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