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Book SynopsisThe Book Goodbye America: Fifty Years of American-Jewish Women’s Immigration to Israel, a Collective Autobiography (1967-2017), is composed of 18 autobiographical essays written by American-Jewish women who made aliyah between 1967 and 2017. Each essay traces the author’s path to making that choice, and describes and analyses her life after her immigration and at various crossroads of her life.
Table of ContentsIntroduction – Aura Hammer: Aura in Wonderland – Chani Preizler: Through the Looking Glass: The Story of My Aliyah -- Judith Tydor Baumel-Schwartz: A Lifelong Journey to My Homeland -- Michelle Luchans Atias: Scenes From An Aliyah Journey -- Michal Ben Ya’akov: Getting My Feet Wet and Jumping In -- Barbara Berkowitz: An American Living in Israel -- Aviva (Anita) Shoshana Goldman Groen: How I Made Aliyah -- Amy B. Luchans: Lucy in the Promised Land -- Barbara Getzoff Schoenfeld: Third Time’s a Charm -- Julia (Yehudit Devorah) Basch: What Was I Thinking?! -- Chavi Swidler Eisenberg: (Wo)Man Makes Plans and God Laughs -- Naomi Ferziger: Home Wasn’t Built in a Day -- Pearl Herskovitz: My Dream Fulfilled -- Robin Shoshanah Kahn: Follow Your Dreams -- Chasya Harriet Nudelman: My Aliyah -- Naomi Ragen: Aliyah: What I Hadn’t Expected; What I Hadn’t Dreamed -- Rochel Sylvetsky: This Is Home -- Deena Zimmerman: Absorbed, but Not Quite -- Glossary of Foreign Terms -- Contributors
