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The Man Who Swam Into History: The (Mostly) True Story of My Jewish Family

The Man Who Swam Into History: The (Mostly) True Story of My Jewish Family

Rosenstone, Robert A.

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ISBN10: 0292709501
ISBN13: 9780292709508
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: Sep 1 2005
Pages: 215
Weight: 0.68
Height: 0.57 Width: 5.58 Depth: 8.46
Language: English

The story begins with a grandfather who heroically escaped from Russia by swimming the Pruth River to Romania--or did he? Then there are stories of another grandfather who kept a lifelong mistress; grandmothers who were ignored except in the kitchen; migrations legal and illegal from Eastern Europe to Canada to California; racketeers on one side of the family and Communists on the other; and a West Coast adolescence in the McCarthy years. All of these (mostly true) stories form a Jewish family's history, a tale of dislocation and assimilation. But in the hands of award-winning historian Robert Rosenstone, they become much more. The fragments of memory so beautifully preserved in The Man Who Swam into History add unforgettable, human characters to the now familiar story of the Jewish diaspora in the twentieth century.

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