Bagels with Babushka is the first volume of Hilda Cohen's autobiography, recounting her childhood through her young adulthood in Salford between World War I and World War II. Divided into the chapters "Settlers in Salford", "From Lichtenstein to Leach", "the House in Northumberland Street", "Bronwen's Baby", "Surrogate Mothers", "Wolf at the Door", "Salad Days in Derbyshire", "Woman's Work", "The Men in Black", "Love and Politics," Cohen's work discusses her Jewish identity, her work history and her political activism with the Youth Front Against War and Fascism, a Socialist social/political club. Other topics include her family's German and Russian roots (including a brief discussion of her mother's parents' escape from the pogroms in Russia), her grief over losing her mother, her time as a teacher and subsequently as a shorthand typist, marriage to Jud and pregnancy.
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Trades Union Congress Library Collections, FWWCP Collection, Region 01 North West, Box 2
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