Summary of Gabrielle Glaser's American Baby EPUB

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#1 Margaret, the daughter of Jewish refugees from Nazi Europe, was always the caregiver. She was so trustworthy that her parents asked her to watch their children. She had rules, and one was expected to obey.

#2 The Erles were modern Orthodox, and they strictly observed the Sabbath as a day of prayer and rest. Margaret was an active member in her synagogue, where she learned to read Hebrew and drew strength from the ancient prayers she chanted in the separate women’s section.

#3 Gertrude had grown up in a small German city with a medieval monastery, a town square with brick Gothic arches, and timbered buildings with fairy-tale spires. She had yearned for horizons beyond Fulda. Alone, she set out for the United States in 1927.

#4 As the war raged in Europe, Gertrude and Josef, by then in their late thirties, put their faith in the future, marrying in 1940. They had two children, Margaret and Allen, but their future seemed uncertain as they lived in a noisy railroad flat near the George Washington Bridge.