Cockney Girl - Softcover

Haber PHD, Gilda Moss

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1780910037 ISBN 13: 9781780910031

Publisher: DB Publishing, 2012

Synopsis

Cockney Girl is a second-generation Jewish-British child’s eyewitness account of tumultuous East London and her eccentric family in England 1934-1950. The writer was then aged 5-20. This zeitgeist, before, during and after World War two, is based on memories and diaries and is, according to ElieWiesel, ‘unmapped history’. Both cockneys, friend Joycey Kennel and I, roamed East London most Saturdays while my operaphile mother set and permed ladies hair and my deaf, barber father, shaved dockers for pub nights and Christmas. One Christmas, Mummy dropped me, aged five, at a Dickensian orphanage for two years, I joyously returned to sooty East London witnessing the 600,000 Fascist - Anti-Fascist 1936 Cable Street Battle and was bridesmaid at aunt Mitzi’s posh wedding. In 1939, London children were hastily evacuated from expected Nazi bombing to country foster parents who ranged fromkind to concupiscent.When I was 14,Mummy sent me to The White House Jewish refugee orphanage: Great Chesterford. Here, contemporaneously with Anne Frank, aged 15, I began my diary, rejoined the tribe and, while a teenager, met Yank servicemen and wounded British soldiers. With peace, aged 16, I returned home, a stranger, attended LSE and immigrated to America, but remained a Cockney Girl.

About this title

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Cockney Girl

About the Author:

Gilda Moss Haber, PhD is a second-generation British Jewish-East End Londoner, educated at Spitalfield Girls' High School and London School of Economics. She immigrated to America to pursue graduate studies and en route to settling in Israel. Still en route, she frequently visits and speaks to audiences in England, Israel and other countries. She is a professor at Montgomery College in Maryland, and teaches Social Psychology and English there, formerly at Maryland University and Brooklyn College. She has written on Sumptuary Law, many short stories, fiction and a satire on American Health care. She is now working on a book of fiction set in Jerusalem and Washington D.C. She is a member of Mensa, various Jewish, academic and writing organizations. For background and publications please see gildahaber.com or Google Gilda Moss Haber.

About this edition

• Publisher: DB Publishing
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1780910037
• ISBN 13: 9781780910031
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240