Bibliograph

The family, three journeys into the heart of the twentieth century, David Laskin

Type

Label

The family, three journeys into the heart of the twentieth century, David Laskin

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages [341]-371) and index

resource.biographical

autobiography

Illustrations

illustrationsgenealogical tablesportraitsplates

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The family

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

834432660

Responsibility statement

David Laskin

Sub title

three journeys into the heart of the twentieth century

Summary

Traces the history of the 20th century through the story of an extraordinary Jewish family, recounting how the author's 19th-century ancestors were separated by period upheavals in western Russia and went on to become the founders of the Maidenform Bra Company, pioneers in the contentious birth of Israel, and victims of the Holocaust

Table Of Contents

Volozhin -- The move to Rakov -- The making of a revolutionary -- The boys -- Lower East Side -- The birth of a business -- Socialist in a black satin dress -- First World War -- Pioneers -- The Depression -- "We will be glad to take you back" -- In love in the land -- Return to Rakov -- "The world of tomorrow" -- Second World War -- Under the big ones -- "They snatch whole streets" -- "Aktion" -- Vilna ghetto -- Yom Kippur, 1941 -- Wonder girl -- Breakdowns -- Despairing people -- Klooga -- Postwar

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