A Forgotten Land: Growing Up in the Jewish Pale: Based on the Recollections of Pearl Unikow Cooper
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| Title | : | A Forgotten Land: Growing Up in the Jewish Pale: Based on the Recollections of Pearl Unikow Cooper |
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| Rating | : | 4.89 (568 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 9655241297 |
| Format Type | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 230 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-02-01 |
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A Forgotten Land is the story of one Jewish family's lives and experiences in the Russian Empire in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, set within the wider context of pogroms, World War I, the Russian Revolution and Civil War. It weaves together personal tragedy and a fascinating but little-known history of the period, as Pearl - the author's grandmother - finds her comfortable family life shattered first by the early death of her mother and later by the Bolshevik Revolution and all that follows. Her hometown is ravaged by the Tsarist and Communist armies, as well as numerous lawless bands of rebels. Almost all are anti-Semitic and slaughter Jews at will. Starvation is threatening the country and although Pearl is only a teenager, she is forced to become the family breadwinner, risking life and limb to keep her relatives alive. Eventually she becomes a black market gold dealer - a crime punishable by death. Finally she can take it no more. Leaving behind her
Editorial : "This splendid book belongs to a genre that has inspired some of the best literature of the post war period. Not fiction, not memoir, not history, not biography but an imaginative interweaving of all these, A Forgotten Land, like Primo Levi's The Truce and Edmund de Waal's The Hare with Amber Eyes, is a true story told in the voice of a narrator who is part of it." Anne Stevenson, poet and author
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