Bagels with Babushka

A Jewish woman’s memoir during the period between both World Wars. Cohen recounts her young life with her grandmother and widowed father, moving to Manchester, and coming of age during the Great Slump. As a young adult, she becomes a teacher and shorthand typist, later joining The Youth Front Against War and Fascism, a Socialist social/political club. Cohen demonstrates how her social and personal upbringings helped develop her interest in the growing oppression against Jewish people.