Horodno Burning (Paperback)
Paperback 330 pages English 21-Sep-21
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In the Russian Empire's Pale of Settlement, Esther Leving, a brilliant young bibliophile, chafes at male dominance, religious dogma, and antisemitism. Bernard Garfinkle, a religious Jew and the son of a vodka distiller, hides a shameful secret-in a culture that worships books, he can't read. Despite their differences, they fall in love. Esther teaches Bernard to read and he in turn builds her a bookshop. They start a family, but when ferocious pogroms target Russian Jews, they must confront violent oppression.Exploring the turbulent history which led to the great migration, when one-and-a-half million Jews emigrated to America between 1881 and 1914, Horodno Burning is a love letter to literature, freedom, and Jewish survival.
- Author:
- Michael Freed-Thall
- Publisher:
- Rootstock Publishing
- Publication Date:
- 21-Sep-21
- Number of pages:
- 330 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback
- ISBN-10:
- 1578690676
- ISBN-13:
- 9781578690671