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Born out of grief after the loss of her father, the author dives into old photos and family histories to search for answers and comfort. Bringing her ancestors to life, the author shares the stories of five immigrant Jewish families who shape Seattle's early years, its retail culture and Seattle's gilded age. In this delightful book, Karen Treiger places herself in the long arc of history and invites the reader to join her time travel. The story telling is masterful as she describes the origin of each family who emigrated to the United States from central and eastern Europe between 1874 and 1913. It's full of tales, both funny and tragic, about ancestors that she knew and those that she didn't. Seattle grew from a small ramshackle town with dirt roads to a bustling metropolis with the Space Needle as our symbol. This book tells Seattle's history through the eyes of Jewish merchants who settled in the Pacific Northwest with hopes and dreams for themselves and especially their children. These families transformed Seattle's Jewish community and shaped Seattle's retail culture. The book both educates and entertains.

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Karen Treiger is a 5th generation Seattlite, who attended Mercer Island High School., University of Washington, Barnard College and NYU Law School, where she served as the Editor in Chief of the NYU Law Review. She practiced law in Seattle, but left her law practice in 2015 to write a book about her in-law's Sam and Esther Goldberg's remarkable survival in Poland during World War II under Nazi rule. The book, My Soul is Filled with Joy: A Holocaust Story was published in 2018 and won the PNWA Nancy Pearl Book Award for Best Memoir and the Bronze Medal in World History from the Independent Publisher's Association. Karen's new book is about her Seattle family's unique history and contribution to Seattle's business and Jewish communities. Karen is an active volunteer with her synagogue, Minyan Ohr Chadash and with Limmud Seattle. She is married to Dr. Sheldon Goldberg and has four children and is thrilled to have five grandchildren.

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