Isidor straus biography books

This book traces the life of Isidor and Ida Straus, both German Jewish immigrants who arrived as children in America in the early 1850s.

"June Hall McCash has written an extraordinarily cogent and deeply moving book about the life of a heroic couple, Ida and Isidor Straus, who chose to perish in each other's arms when the RMS Titanic hit an iceberg and sank at sea.

Isidor Straus (February 6, 1845 – April 15, 1912) was a Bavarian-born American businessman, politician and co-owner of Macy's department store.

Isidor and his beloved wife Ida Blun Straus lost their lives together in the Titanic disaster. An article about their activities during the months leading up April and what we know about their last moments aboard Titanic is included in the new section. Isidor wrote this book to tell his children the story of his life.

This new edition of The Autobiography of Isidor Straus is faithful to the original 1955 volume.

This book traces the life of Isidor and Ida Straus, both German Jewish immigrants who arrived as children in America in the early s. Isidor s father, Lazarus, was an itinerate peddler in Georgia, but within one generation the family became the wealthy owners of Macy s Department Store in New York.