""Even my Dad had a hard time finding a place when he and my mother were first married...Momma was pregnant with Berenice, and he went to a woman who had a house. He asked if they could rent a place. She said, no, she couldn t rent to Jews. Dad said, 'Well, now I know why Jesus was born in a manger.'" " Ruth Matz McCrimmon, "A Homeland in the West" Rather than a history of Utah Jews, this is a book of Utah Jewish histories. "A Homeland in the West" collects the stories and the voices of men and women drawn west by choice or by chance, people who made their way and earned their living...
""Even my Dad had a hard time finding a place when he and my mother were first married...Momma was pregnant with Berenice, and he went to a woman who ...