{"id":4125,"date":"2026-03-13T15:18:42","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T22:18:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/katechamberlin.com\/?p=4125"},"modified":"2026-03-13T15:18:42","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T22:18:42","slug":"mosco-maisie-almonds-and-raisins-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/katechamberlin.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/13\/mosco-maisie-almonds-and-raisins-10\/","title":{"rendered":"Mosco Maisie Almonds and raisins (10)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201c<a>Raisins and Almonds\u201d by Maisie Mosco<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>NOTE: There is a plethora of in-depth biographies of authors and reviews of their books, that state the title, author, published date, and genre; as well as, describing what the book is about, setting, and character(s), so, Kate\u2019s 2\u00a2 shares her thoughts about what she\u2019s read. In her opinion\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp; Barbara Rappaport did an excellent job of narrating this family saga. This story sheds a light on how a traditional Jewish family survived immigrating to England and how the stereotype of a Jewish Mother guided all aspects of her family\u2019s life\u2026so, what can you do!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This article needs additional citations for verification.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Maisie Mosco (7 December 1924 \u2013 31 October 2011) was an English writer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She was born as Maisie Gottlieb[1] in Oldham, northeast of Manchester, England, on 7 December 1924, the eldest of three children. Her parents were of Latvian Jewish and Viennese Jewish descent. Their respective families settled in England in the late 19th century, and both her parents were born in Manchester.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A clever girl, she wanted to study medicine though because of her mother&#8217;s illness, and as the eldest child, she had to leave school at the age of 14 to help in the family business. At the age of 18, she joined the ATS and by the end of World War II, was helping to teach illiterate soldiers how to read.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She married twice: to Aubrey Liston in 1948, then to Gerald Mosco in 1957. She died in London on 31 October 2011, aged 86.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Writings[edit]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After the war, she edited a Manchester Jewish weekly newspaper, the Jewish Gazette, subsequently writing radio plays for the BBC. One of her stage plays, Happy Family, became the basis of a horror film Mumsy, Nanny, Sonny and Girly.[1]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She also wrote 16 novels between 1979 and 1998. These include the &#8216;Almonds and Raisins&#8217; series (Almonds &amp; Raisins, Scattered Seed, Children&#8217;s Children, Out of the Ashes, and New Beginnings), about a Jewish family who around 1900 fled anti-Jewish pogroms in the Russian Empire and emigrated to north Manchester in England. These books contained elements of her own family history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In Almonds and Raisins[2] the newly arrived Sandberg family see a tram for the first time \u2013 a Manchester double-decker. Abraham (the father) exclaims, &#8220;A train with two storeys? And no roof?&#8221; [Manchester trams were open-topped in the late 19th and early 20th century.] The local rabbi explains: &#8220;In English, they call it a tram&#8230;. In Yiddish, we don&#8217;t have a word for it.&#8221; &#8220;In the wire overhead, there&#8217;s electricity, we don&#8217;t have a word for that either.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From NLS\/BARD\/LOC:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Almonds and raisins DB37489<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Series: Almonds and raisins saga<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Order in Series: 1<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Author: Mosco, Maisie<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Reading Time: 12 hours, 15 minutes<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Production: National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled, Library of Congress<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read by: Barbara Rappaport<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Subjects: Family, Historical Fiction<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the early 1900s many Jewish families flee the continent for England. Among them are the Sandbergs from Russia and the Moritzes from Austria. An immediate bond is established between the two groups as the Sandberg boys spend their first weeks in England sharing a bed with the Moritz children. Over the years family members will fall in and out of favor with one another, but a stronger bond will always bring them back together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">New York : HarperPaperbacks, c1979.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Take Action On Almonds and raisins<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cRaisins and Almonds\u201d by Maisie Mosco NOTE: There is a plethora of in-depth biographies of authors and reviews of their books, that state the title, author, published date, and genre; as well as, describing what the book is about, setting, and character(s), so, Kate\u2019s 2\u00a2 shares her thoughts about what she\u2019s read. 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