Collected here for the very first time is the complete Prose and Poetry of Sonia Savage, lovingly edited by her son, Norton. In one convenient volume, the reader has easy access to her insightful, provocative and sensitive essays on such varied subjects as intermarriages, poverty and hunger, and the changing seasons. They are all reproduced as they originally appeared in the monthly publication Tidbits. Also included are her writings from her personal journal detailing her Russian childhood, as well as a section of book and play reviews. Last, but by no means least is Sonia Savage's poetry, in which she uses her art to limn such diverse themes as the Holocaust, family matters, aging, and the Yiddish language. For fans of memoirs and verse, this is a collection that will be very much enjoyed.
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Sonia Brook was born in 1894 in the Russian village of Bikhov. At age 17, she emigrated to the United States where she worked for a short time on a New Jersey farm. She later moved to Philadelphia, where she met and married Morris Savage. In 1916 the couple's first child, Norman, was born, but he lived only a few months. In 1918 their second child, Norton, was born and their third child, Miriam (Mimi) Ida, was born three years later.
Over the years, the family moved from Philadelphia to New York and Washington, D.C., settling finally in the late '60s in Silver Spring, Maryland. She attended night school and English lectures in order to familiarize herself with the language of her new country. Having at one time been a factory worker, Sonia moved on to become an assistant in a nursery school run by the soviet Embassy for the children of its employees, and a saleswoman in Lerner's Department Store until she retired at the age of 81.
When Morris died in 1969, Sonia became an active member of the Friendship Circle at the Jewish Community Center of Greater Washington and her interest in writing flourished.
On February 5, 1981, Sonia died. She was 87.
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