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The Invisible Wall: A Love Story That Broke Barriers

The Invisible Wall: A Love Story That Broke Barriers
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“There are places that I have never forgotten. A little cobbled street in a smoky mill town in the North of England has haunted me for the greater part of my life. It was inevitable that I should write about it and the people who lived on both sides of its ‘Invisible Wall.’ ”

The narrow street where Harry Bernstein grew up, in a small English mill town, was seemingly unremarkable. It was identical to countless other streets in countless other working-class neighborhoods of the early 1900s, except for the “invisible wall” that ran down its center, dividing Jewish families on one side from Christian families on the other. Only a few feet of cobblestones separated Jews from Gentiles, but socially, it they were miles apart.

On the eve of World War I, Harry’s family struggles to make ends meet. His father earns little money at the Jewish tailoring shop and brings home even less, preferring to spend his wages drinking and gambling. Harry’s mother, devoted to her children and fiercely resilient, survives on her dreams: new shoes that might secure Harry’s admission to a fancy school; that her daughter might marry the local rabbi; that the entire family might one day be whisked off to the paradise of America.

Then Harry’s older sister, Lily, does the unthinkable: She falls in love with Arthur, a Christian boy from across the street.

When Harry unwittingly discovers their secret affair, he must choose between the morals he’s been taught all his life, his loyalty to his selfless mother, and what he knows to be true in his own heart.

A wonderfully charming memoir written when the author was ninety-three, The Invisible Wall vibrantly brings to life an all-but-forgotten time and place. It is a moving tale of working-class life, and of the boundaries that can be overcome by love.

 

What Customers Say About The Invisible Wall: A Love Story That Broke Barriers:

Well written, poignant - a first hand view of poverty and anti-semitism in prewar England.

The Jewish went to the local public school and the Catholic to the Catholic School. We, as a thoughtful world, have to look at people as equals.Poverty is a great equalizer in this book. Where I grew up was a street that ended at Lake Michigan.

I don't think a love story came out of the street but I didn't marry a Jew. It makes the story even more compelling. I overcame the bigotry of the street and the society as a whole.

I related very well to this book. There just was no interaction. I totally enjoyed and related tothis book.

We has Jewish and Catholic on the same block. We didn't visit with each other or play with each other, but we didn't fight.

And to think it took 96 years before he put it on paper. Loved the read, harsh yet sweet in so many ways, so much like life.

There is no interaction between the two groups until a forbidden marriage takes place. It is a life of poverty in this family of many children and a cruel father. This memoir of a life in England during World War I was written by a man in his 90s. In his afterword the author suggests that the world would be a better place if there was more inter-marriage. The mother is a martyr who struggles to raise her family in spite of all the obstacles. His memory of conversations and events is amazing. The invisable wall of the title is the line on the street where he lives, with Jews on one side and Christians on the other.

Berstein's story of his life was one I highly recommend even if you don't normally read biography. I loved this book. Mr.

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