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Jennie Altman Muraven, audio and transcript

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… Jennie Altman Muraven , audio and transcript …
“ … rights and a homeland for Jews. Later, at the age of 14, Jennie accompanied her younger sisters to America to join her … their knowledge to somebody else. LB: I see. Well, Mrs. Muraven, I’m going to stop the tape and say thank you … when you went to school, Mrs. Muraven, you went to an elementary school where Russian was … ”
In Lucille W. Brown and Stephen M. Berk Oral Histories of American Jews

Abstract

As a young teenager living in her uncle's house in Uman, Jennie Muraven was strongly influenced by her cousins' young friends who gathered under the trees during the summers to talk of reform and revolution, workers rights and a homeland for Jews. Later, at the age of 14, Jennie accompanied her younger sisters to America to join her parents.

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