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Record Nr.

UNINA9910793810303321

Autore

Stonov Dmitriĭ <1898-1962, >

Titolo

The Raskin family / / Dmitry Stonov ; translated by Konstantin Gurevich and Helen Anderson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boston : , : Cherry Orchard Books, an imprint of Academic Studies Press, , [2019]

©2019

ISBN

1-64469-059-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (224 p.)

Disciplina

891.73/42

Soggetti

Jews - Belarus

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

The Raskin Family was first published in Russian in 1929, in Moscow.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ABOUT THE AUTHOR -- PART ONE -- PART TWO -- PART THREE -- IN PLACE OF AN EPILOGUE -- PHOTOGRAPHS

Sommario/riassunto

"Meyer Raskin is a wealthy Jewish entrepreneur running a large agricultural estate in Belarus on the western outskirts of the Russian Empire in the early 20th century. His wife Chava feels out of place and yearns for the quiet life of a Jewish shtetl. Together they have six children, some of whom help their father on the estate, while others are more interested in pursuing education or getting involved in revolutionary politics. Their lives are interrupted first by the Russian revolution of 1905 and later by World War I, which eventually turns them all into refugees. This is an autobiographical novel based on the author's family"--