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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Brahin, Lisa (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Pegasus Books, 2022.
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.