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On The Soo shelf

A family memoir reflects on the golden age
of "the Jew store," and sheds light on
a piece of merican history.

has no noticeable Southern accent,
although she laughs and insists she can _ N
turn it on. She describes the 1910s and
1920s, when the memoir takes place, as
n 1920, the Jewish population
the
"golden age of Jew stores.
of Union City, Tenn., increased
These Jewish-owned shops in small
by 100 percent. That was the
towns throughout the South — actu-
year the Bronson family moved
ally referred to as Jew
there from New York, becoming the
stores — sold dry
only Jewish family
goods to the poorer
among close to
people in town,
6,000 inhabi-
including blacks,
tants, and the
farm hands and fac-
proprietors of
tory workers.
"Bronson's Low-
A retired muse-
Priced Store."
um executive who
The story of
now lives in Boca
their 13-year
Raton, Fla., Suber-
sojourn — when
man recognizes that
they left there
calling the book The
were again no
Jew Store has a cer-
Jews in town — is
tain shock value,
gracefully and col-
and recounts that
orfully unfolded in
some publishing
a new memoir by
executives were ini-
Stella Suberman,
tially against using
the youngest of the
it.
family.
You don't have
The Jew Store
to go much further
(Algonquin;
than the dust jacket<
$19.95), her first
to realize it's not pejorative. In the
book, evokes a Southern culture,
South, she says, "Jew is often used as
where there's always time to sit back
an adjective."
on the porch and tell stories, where
Although Suberman was born two
most of the locals don white sheets for
years
after her family moved to Union
Klan meetings, where a request for
City, she describes their arrival scene
brisket at the local meat market is met
as though she were there, for every
with a look as though it were "the
detail was preserved in her family's
flesh from a newly evolved animal."
stories, which were endlessly retold. ,z
The lives and complicated identities
(In the book, she refers to the town as
of Southern Jews have been splendidly
Concordia, as a way to protect peo-
depicted in the works of historian Eli
ple's privacy, but a Tennessee newspa-
Evans and in the plays of Alfred Uhry.
per has since revealed the town's real
Suberman adds an important new
name.)
chapter.
Some people in the town were con-
While Evans grew up in a Zionist-
vinced the Bronsons were fake Jews
minded community in Durham,
since they didn't have horns. This
N.C., where his father served as
being "near the buckle on the Bible
mayor, and Uhry lived in a highly
Belt," some believed they were God's - -\
assimilated world of German Jews in
chosen people. And others took a
Atlanta, Suberman's milieu — the sin-
position of suspicion and hatred.
gle Jewish merchant family in an iso-
Suberman's parents make a lasting
lated town — is quite different.
impression on the reader. Aaron Bron-
"I always knew I had a story to tell,"
son, her father, glows with optimism.
says the 76-year-old author. Suberman
In the Russian shtetl of Podolska
where he was born, the young orphan
Sandee Brawarsky is a freelance writer
was nicknamed " geborner ferkoifer,
based in New York.

SAN DEE BRAWARS KY
Special to The Jewish News

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