A New Beginning

The Author: Shirley Kolack was born in Atlanta, Georgia. She is professor of sociology and former chairperson of the department of sociology at the University of Massachusetts-Lowell. Professor Kolack received her Ph.D. in Sociology and Anthropology from Boston University. She is the co-author of the book Technology, Values and Society and has published several articles on historic Lowell, Massachusetts. She has also written on racial, religious and ethnic groups in the United States and other countries. She received two cultural grants from the Lowell Historic Preservation Commission-U.S. Department of the Interior, to prepare an exhibit on Jewish life in Lowell and to write this book.