A Stern Search: Looking for My Father

A Stern Search: Looking for My FatherBlack history in America is interwoven intricately with every religion, country, and culture of the world. A Stern Search - Looking for My Father is the story of an African-American woman's rich and diverse religious, national, and cultural heritage. She is black. She is white. She is Catholic. She is Jewish. She is Cherokee. In this book, Sheila Stern Bader uses genealogy in an historical context to enrich the report of 150 years of her family's history. It begins with German-Jewish immigration. It continues in America with Jewish and Catholic religious traditions. It details the challenges of her parents' interracial marriage during a time when miscegenation was a crime in much of America. It unapologetically details the challenges of class differences.Bader ably unfolds her ancestors' and descendants' lives from the Civil War to the Trump Administration. The Stern family history begins with Bader's great-grandfather, Phillip R. Stern's, migration