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Standing on the Crack: Legacy of Five Jewish Families from Seattle's Gilded Age.

This is the story of a daughter's search for her ancestors while also being an account of her discoveries about this large enterprising immigrant Jewish family (milliners, jewelers, general store merchants) that helped to build the Seattle we know today. Karen I. Treiger enriches her pages by setting family members in the historical context of time and place (from Eastern Europe to Seattle and Portland). Her concern to learn from her forebears' difficulties and tragedies as well as from their business and personal successes and happiness make her family history an engaging and meaningful read.

—Priscilla Long, author of Fire and Stone: Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going

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My Soul Is Filled With Joy

A Holocaust Story

WINNER OF THE PNWA NANCY PEARL BOOKS AWARD - BEST MEMOIR

WINNER OF BRONZE MEDAL IN WORLD HISTORY INDEPENDENT PUBLISHERS ASSOC.

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Sam and Esther's story will never be the same again!

THREE MINUTE INTERVIEW - UW WRITING PROGRAM

Check out this great interview by the UW Certificated Writing Program. It can be found, along with photos and an article about me on the UW Writing Program website.

Gratitude may not make your life longer, but it will make the life you live better.

Gratitude in a Minute takes you on a journey of gratitude, forgiveness, kindness and love. It begins with a family’s horrific story of survival amid the inhumanity of the Holocaust, but ends in a tale of being grateful for every day and every thing with which we are blessed. Whatever situation you find yourself in, Gratitude in a Minute will help you keep what’s important in the forefront of your mind. We are all heroes of our own lives, and we all have so much to be grateful for.

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Dear Reader - A TASTE OF AUDIO

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HOW DID SAM AND ESTHER MEET?

EVEN IN TREBLINKA, THERE WAS KINDNESS

Song recorded by Goldberg Family. Words from Psalms 30, music by Shlomo Goldberg. Song sung to the Stys family in June of 2016.

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WORDS TO SONG

יְ-ה-וָ-ה--הֶעֱלִיתָ מִן-שְׁאוֹל נַפְשִׁי;

חִיִּיתַנִי, מיורדי- (מִיָּרְדִי-) בוֹר.

זַמְּרוּ לַי-ה-וָ-ה חֲסִידָיו;

וְהוֹדוּ, לְזֵכֶר קָדְשׁוֹ.

כִּי רֶגַע, בְּאַפּוֹ;

חַיִּים בִּרְצוֹנוֹ:

בָּעֶרֶב, יָלִין בֶּכִי;

וְלַבֹּקֶר רִנָּה.

You, Lord, brought me up from hell; gave me life from the depths of the pit. Sing to the Lord, you his righteous ones; and give thanks to his holy name. For his anger lasts only a moment, but his favor lasts a lifetime; Weeping may stay for the night, but rejoicing comes in the morning