PAPA WAS A FARMER. by Meckler, Branda Weisberg - 1988.

Chapel Hill, NC:: Algonquin Books in association with Taylor Publishing Co., Dallas,, 1988.. Hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. The story of an immigrant Jewish family's life in America's heartland. "With his wife and small daughter, Max Weisberg left Russia in 1904, went first to Cincinnati and eventually to a 60-acre farm in southern Ohio. The rural community, previously unfamiliar with European Jewish immigrants, accepted the family without prejudice. Weisberg's daughter 'Goldie' recalls her bucolic childhood with affection: the one-room schoolhouse, chores, adapting to local customs. . . an appealing piece of rural Americana. (Publishers Weekly) Illustrated with drawings by Marcia Erickson. 318 pp.