The Raskin family
"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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| Other Authors / Creators: | Gurevich, Konstantin, translator. Anderson, Helen, 1956- translator. |
| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Language notes: | Translated from the Russian. |
| Imprint: | Brookline, MA : Cherry Orchard Books, an imprint of Academic Studies Press, [2019] |
| Online Access: | Available in ProQuest Ebook Central - Academic Complete. |
| 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"-- Meyer Raskin is a Jewish entrepreneur running an agricultural estate in Belarus in the early 20th century. Some of his children help him on the estate, while others pursue education or revolutionary politics. World War I turns them into refugees. This autobiographical novel is based on the author's family. |
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| Item Description: | The Raskin Family was first published in Russian in 1929, in Moscow. |
| ISBN: | 9781644690598 (online) 9781644692936 (online) |
| Author Notes: | Dmitry Stonov (1898-1962) was a Soviet literary author and a war correspondent in World War II. Because of his ties to the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee, he spent over five years in the Gulag (1949-1954). He published a dozen books and many short stories, some autobiographical. |