The Invisible Wall, (Paperback)

from brucemmoyer

Hard-to-forget story of a very poor neighborhood in early 1900s England where self imposed segregation between the Jews on one side of the street and the Christians on the other. Deals with a family with a deeply caring mother, a brute of a husband with very few redeeming qualities, and their 5 C...

from tloeffler

Bernstein wrote this memoir of his childhood at age 93, and it comes across so fresh. It's not often that you read a book about a Jewish family in WWII England rather than WWII Germany, and the love story was just wonderful. The "invisible wall" was the street that divided the Jewish side from th...

from susanahern

The Invisible Wall is a vivid portrait of a young Jewish boy and his life in England in the early 1900s. Beautifully written, this memoir by Harry Bernstein tells of his life in a working class mill town, on a street which is divided by religion. He and his Jewish neighbors live on one side; the ...

from TadAD

Somehow, the first pages didn't encourage me. The extremely simple voice made me wonder whether his writing style was going to become tedious. The opening paragraphs made me think "uh oh, another 300 page whine about oppression." I don't know why...just my mood, perhaps. It didn't really matter. ...

from thereshegoes

At first, I wasn't exactly looking forward to reading this book. Sure, it sounded interesting and very intriguing. It was after all a book based on a true story, a memoir, about a young Jewish boy, growing up in a poor society that has been divided by religion and culture. It also features a forb...