A Titanic Love Story: Ida and Isidor Straus

ISBN-13: 9780881462777 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 322 str.

June Hall McCash

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This book traces the life of Isidor and Ida Straus, both German Jewish immigrants who arrived as children in America in the early 1850s. Isidor's father, Lazarus, was an itinerate peddler in Georgia, but within one generation the family became the wealthy owners of Macy's Department Store in New York. A Titanic Love Story follows the Strauses' life from Talbotton, Georgia, where an anti-Semitic incident caused them to move to nearby Columbus. The devastation of Columbus at the end of the Civil War brought the family to New York, where Isidor met and eventually married the young Ida Blun. Their tragic deaths on the Titanic brought to an end the lives of a remarkable couple devoted to business, family, and philanthropy.