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    612-822-4611

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Playing Detective with Family Lore: How plugging the holes in a family history unintentionally came to tell the saga of Jews in a microcosm

Playing Detective with Family Lore: How plugging the holes in a family history unintentionally came to tell the saga of Jews in a microcosm

Ashkenazy, Daniella Weiss

Paperback

Biographies GeneralHumorGenealogy & Heraldry

ISBN10: 9657041163
ISBN13: 9789657041161
Publisher: Jewishselfpublishing
Published: Nov 19 2020
Pages: 450
Weight: 1.32
Height: 0.91 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Playing Detective with Family Lore is more than one family's saga. The far-ranging origins of the author's family and the course of the progenitors' lives and those of their descendants provide a microcosmic illustration of the macro-level triumphs and tragedies of Jewish life in Eastern Europe and America. From the tiny Radekhiv shtetl to the famous Polish market town Jaroslaw, from the Russian port city Nikolayev - inside of the Pale of Settlement during the 1905 pogroms, to Jassy - rife with unique antisemitic legislation following Romanian independence, this book unwittingly traces a collective history epitomized by one particular family's combined narratives, making it a 'must read' for the 80% of American Jews who trace their ancestry back to Eastern Europe.

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