The Journey by Ida Fink National Jewish Book Award Winner Our thinking about Jewish name

Our thinking about Jewish name changing tends to focus on clichés: ambitious movie stars who adopted glamorous new names or insensitive Ellis Island officials who changed immigrants’ names for them

and an additional four stories that he did not include in either of his collections

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From Yiddish-speaking Russian-Lithuanian feather handlers in South Africa to London manufacturers and wholesalers

And Jewish artists created critical portraits of name changers that lasted for decades in American Jewish culture

The Journey by Ida Fink National Jewish Book Award Winner Our thinking about Jewish nameWith this deeply moving, masterfully controlled novel, Fink, a Jewish writer who was born in Poland in 1921, continues her exploration of survival during the Holocaust (begun in the story collection A Scrap of Time ). Two Jewish sisters armed only with poorly forged papers escape a Polish ghetto; their real names are never given, and the narrator, the older sister, instead uses the various aliases they assume. Posing as Christians, they report to a