A Forgotten Land: Growing Up in the Jewish Pale: Based on the Recollections of Pearl Unikow Cooper
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.76 (775 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 9655241297 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 230 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-08-01 |
| Language | : | English |
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Not fiction, not memoir, not history, not biography but an imaginative interweaving of all these, A Forgotten Land, like Primo Levi's The Truce and Edmund de Waal's The Hare with Amber Eyes, is a true story told in the voice of a narrator who is part of it." Anne Stevenson, poet and authorThis splendid book belongs to a genre that has inspired some of the best literature of the post-war period. --Anne Stevenson, author and poet . Open to the first paragraph and you ll find it hard to stop reading till you get to the last. In this tale of a family s ordeals of survival in the Jewish Pale of the Ukraine for over a hundred years, Lisa Cooper alternately entertains, disturbs and appals, but, by speaking in her grandmother s voice with perfec
A beautiful, personal, emotional story Jana My ancestors are from Pavoloch too, and I found this book while searching for information about them and their shtetl.This is a beautifully written account of life in the shtetl during the late 19th - early 20th century. The narrator is Pearl Unikow, the author's grandmother, and the account is based on tapes Pearl recorded telling her story to her son, backed up by the author'. "Excellent book for history enthusiasts" according to m. fabinsky. An excellent book, well researched and smoothly written. A Forgotten Land traces several generations of one family - beginning in the 18Excellent book for history enthusiasts An excellent book, well researched and smoothly written. A Forgotten Land traces several generations of one family - beginning in the 1830s in the Pale of Settlement of the Russian Empire and culminating in the family's successful re-location to 20th century Canada. The early portion of the book is an interesting combination of Russian and family history. It provides a rich des. 0s in the Pale of Settlement of the Russian Empire and culminating in the family's successful re-location to 20th century Canada. The early portion of the book is an interesting combination of Russian and family history. It provides a rich des. Mitchell Shnier said A very special book. This is a very special book.We've all heard about "the old country", but the stories in this book bring it to life; what people did for a living, how difficult life was, how it got worse, and why and how people left for other places in the world.If your family came from or near Ukraine (from the late 1800s to the early 1900s), this book will tell you about where you came from,
Leaving behind her family and the only home she has ever known, she makes her escape to a new world. . Finally she can take it no more. Starvation is threatening the country and although Pearl is only a teenager, she is forced to become the family breadwinner, risking life and limb to keep her relatives alive. A Forgotten Land is the story of one Jewish family's lives and experiences in the Russian Empire in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, set within the wider context of pogroms, World War I, the Russian Revolution and Civil War. It weaves together personal tragedy and a fascinating but little-known history of the period, as Pearl - the author's grandmother - finds her comfortable family life shattered first by the early death of her mother and later by the Bolshevik Revolution and all that follows. Her hometown is r