Tears over Russia : a search for family and the legacy of Ukraine's pogroms /
"Between 1917 and 1921, twenty years before the Holocaust began, an estimated 100,000 to 250,000 Jews were murdered in anti-Jewish pogroms across Ukraine. Lisa grew up transfixed by her grandmother Channa's stories about her family being forced to flee their hometown of Stavishche, as armi...
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New York, NY :
Pegasus Books,
2022.
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| Edition: | First Pegasus Books cloth edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preface: A granddaughter's memories
- Russian Jewish timeline: a brief chronology of historical events, 1881--1921
- Prologue: Stavishche, June 15--16, 1919
- Part I: Calm before the storm: 1876-1918
- Family folklore
- A total eclipse
- A Passover tragedy
- Days of innocence
- Avrum Cutler's brief betrothals
- Count Wladyslaw Branicki and the noble family of Stavishche
- Part II: The pogroms: 1917-1920
- Grigoriev's bandits
- From village to village
- Ataman Zeleny meets Rabbi Pitsie Avram
- The murder of Bessie Cutler's husband
- General Denikin's militia
- Refuge in Belaya Tserkov
- Part III: Exodus to the Goldene Medina, 1920-1925
- There was a place nearby, where they made the little coffins
- The unlikely arrival of Barney Stumacher, an American hero
- The great escape: the wagon trains
- The perilous crossing of the Dniester River
- Adventures in Romania
- Life in Kishinev
- Journey on the SS Braga
- America: the first years
- Part IV: Rebecca and Isaac's children: select stories in Philadelphia, 1926-1931
- Struggling in the golden land
- The story of Anne and Ben
- When Sunny met Harry
- Beryl
- Part V: Rabbis and reunions 1941-1950 rainbows 1925 and 2003
- Rabbi Pitsie Avram in the Bronx
- The events that defined their lives in the New World
- Rainbows.