The contents of a shoebox in America led the author to discover her grandmmother’s family, from Picasso in Paris, Dior and Chagall to a farmhouse in the Auvergne, Auschwitz and Long Island. Already hailed as a masterpiece, this is compelling reading.
House of Glass: The story and secrets of a twentieth-century Jewish family
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Edition:Hardback978000832263205/03/2020From a Bookshelf nearby
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MS is an outstanding literary voice in contemporary Russia: here she creates a portrait of three Russian-Jewish generations sifted from the detritus in a late aunt's flat. This book is diff... read more
In Memory of Memory
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In the period 1917-1921, between 100,000 and 250,000 Jews were murdered across Ukraine. Brahin, a genealogist, traces her grandmother's family history through multiple sources.
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A group biography of five women at Oxford in the early C20th who pioneered the study of remote communities in Siberia, Egypt, New Mexico and Easter Island. The women were Katherine Routledge... read more
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