02630nam 2200637 450 991081817620332120190619101113.01-64469-059-410.1515/9781644690598(CKB)4100000009937021(DE-B1597)540914(OCoLC)1105736057(DE-B1597)9781644690598(MiAaPQ)EBC5984059(EXLCZ)99410000000993702120190617h20192019 uy| 1engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe Raskin family /Dmitry Stonov ; translated by Konstantin Gurevich and Helen AndersonBoston :Cherry Orchard Books, an imprint of Academic Studies Press,[2019]©20191 online resource (224 p.)The Raskin Family was first published in Russian in 1929, in Moscow.1-64469-057-8 Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ABOUT THE AUTHOR -- PART ONE -- PART TWO -- PART THREE -- IN PLACE OF AN EPILOGUE -- PHOTOGRAPHS"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"--Provided by publisher.JewsBelarusFiction1905.Agricultural estates.Belarus.Entrepreneurs.Jewish Pale of Settlement.Jews.Poland.Russia.Russian Revolution.War refugee.World War I.autobiographical fiction.fiction.literary fiction in translation.Jews891.73/42Stonov Dmitriĭ1898-1962,1698415Gurevich KonstantinAnderson Helen1956-MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910818176203321The Raskin family4079844UNINA