The Raskin family / / Dmitry Stonov ; translated by Konstantin Gurevich and Helen Anderson.
"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 wh...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Boston : : Cherry Orchard Books, an imprint of Academic Studies Press,, [2019] 2019 |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English Russian |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (225 pages) :; illustrations, maps, portraits |
| Notes: | The Raskin Family was first published in Russian in 1929, in Moscow. |
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| Other title: | Semia Raskinykh. |
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| Summary: | "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"-- |
| ISBN: | 9781644690574 9781644690581 9781644690598 (ebook) |
| Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
| Statement of Responsibility: | Dmitry Stonov ; translated by Konstantin Gurevich and Helen Anderson. |