| Edition |
First Pegasus Books cloth edition. |
| Description |
xxvi, 305 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), portraits (some color) ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-305). |
| Contents |
Preface: A granddaughter's memories -- Russian Jewish timeline: a brief chronology of historical events, 1881--1921 -- Prologue: Stavishche, June 15--16, 1919 -- Part I: Calm before the storm: 1876-1918 -- Family folklore -- A total eclipse -- A Passover tragedy -- Days of innocence -- Avrum Cutler's brief betrothals -- Count Wladyslaw Branicki and the noble family of Stavishche -- Part II: The pogroms: 1917-1920 -- Grigoriev's bandits -- From village to village -- Ataman Zeleny meets Rabbi Pitsie Avram -- The murder of Bessie Cutler's husband -- General Denikin's militia -- Refuge in Belaya Tserkov -- Part III: Exodus to the Goldene Medina, 1920-1925 -- There was a place nearby, where they made the little coffins -- The unlikely arrival of Barney Stumacher, an American hero -- The great escape: the wagon trains -- The perilous crossing of the Dniester River -- Adventures in Romania -- Life in Kishinev -- Journey on the SS Braga -- America: the first years -- Part IV: Rebecca and Isaac's children: select stories in Philadelphia, 1926-1931 -- Struggling in the golden land -- The story of Anne and Ben -- When Sunny met Harry -- Beryl -- Part V: Rabbis and reunions 1941-1950 rainbows 1925 and 2003 -- Rabbi Pitsie Avram in the Bronx -- The events that defined their lives in the New World -- Rainbows. |
| Subject |
Brahin, Lisa -- Family.
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Pogroms -- Ukraine -- History -- 20th century.
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Jews -- Persecutions -- Ukraine -- History -- 20th century.
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Jewish families -- Ukraine -- Biography.
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| Genre or Form |
Biographies.
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| Added Title |
Search for family and the legacy of Ukraine's pogroms |
| ISBN |
1639361677 (hardcover) |
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9781639361670 (hardcover) |
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