Thu November 6, 2014
The Family: Three Journeys into the Heart of the Twentieth Century
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In this deeply personal and compelling narrative, David Laskin chronicles how the tide of history affected three branches of his mother’s family during the great Jewish upheavals of the twentieth century: mass immigration to America, the founding of the state of Israel, and the Holocaust.
Beginning in Russia in the mid-1800s with his great-grandfather Shimon Dov HaKohen, a Torah scribe, Laskin traces the movements of his family to the U.S. (where one relative, Ida Rosenthal, founded the Maidenform Bra company), to pre-State Israel, where members of another branch were idealistic pioneers, and to Eastern Europe, where an entire branch of the family perished.
David Laskin is the author of The Children’s Blizzard and other books of nonfiction, including The Long Way Home and Partisans. The Family was shortlisted for the 2014 William Saroyan International Prize for Writing.
For more information, call Allison Green at 415.567.3327 x703 of [email protected] .
The Jewish Community Library is at 1835 Ellis Street in San Francisco, on the campus of the Jewish Community High School of the Bay. Entrance to secure garage parking is on Pierce between Ellis and Eddy.
http://www.jewishcommunitylibrary.org
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Beginning in Russia in the mid-1800s with his great-grandfather Shimon Dov HaKohen, a Torah scribe, Laskin traces the movements of his family to the U.S. (where one relative, Ida Rosenthal, founded the Maidenform Bra company), to pre-State Israel, where members of another branch were idealistic pioneers, and to Eastern Europe, where an entire branch of the family perished.
David Laskin is the author of The Children’s Blizzard and other books of nonfiction, including The Long Way Home and Partisans. The Family was shortlisted for the 2014 William Saroyan International Prize for Writing.
For more information, call Allison Green at 415.567.3327 x703 of [email protected] .
The Jewish Community Library is at 1835 Ellis Street in San Francisco, on the campus of the Jewish Community High School of the Bay. Entrance to secure garage parking is on Pierce between Ellis and Eddy.
http://www.jewishcommunitylibrary.org
In this deeply personal and compelling narrative, David Laskin chronicles how the tide of history affected three branches of his mother’s family during the great Jewish upheavals of the twentieth century: mass immigration to America, the founding of the state of Israel, and the Holocaust.
Beginning in Russia in the mid-1800s with his great-grandfather Shimon Dov HaKohen, a Torah scribe, Laskin traces the movements of his family to the U.S. (where one relative, Ida Rosenthal, founded the Maidenform Bra company), to pre-State Israel, where members of another branch were idealistic pioneers, and to Eastern Europe, where an entire branch of the family perished.
David Laskin is the author of The Children’s Blizzard and other books of nonfiction, including The Long Way Home and Partisans. The Family was shortlisted for the 2014 William Saroyan International Prize for Writing.
For more information, call Allison Green at 415.567.3327 x703 of [email protected] .
The Jewish Community Library is at 1835 Ellis Street in San Francisco, on the campus of the Jewish Community High School of the Bay. Entrance to secure garage parking is on Pierce between Ellis and Eddy.
http://www.jewishcommunitylibrary.org
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Beginning in Russia in the mid-1800s with his great-grandfather Shimon Dov HaKohen, a Torah scribe, Laskin traces the movements of his family to the U.S. (where one relative, Ida Rosenthal, founded the Maidenform Bra company), to pre-State Israel, where members of another branch were idealistic pioneers, and to Eastern Europe, where an entire branch of the family perished.
David Laskin is the author of The Children’s Blizzard and other books of nonfiction, including The Long Way Home and Partisans. The Family was shortlisted for the 2014 William Saroyan International Prize for Writing.
For more information, call Allison Green at 415.567.3327 x703 of [email protected] .
The Jewish Community Library is at 1835 Ellis Street in San Francisco, on the campus of the Jewish Community High School of the Bay. Entrance to secure garage parking is on Pierce between Ellis and Eddy.
http://www.jewishcommunitylibrary.org
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