The family
Subtitle: three fates in the twentieth century
By: David Laskin
Publisher: Viking
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 383
ISBN-13: 9780670025473
Subjects: Belarusian Jews; Jews; Biography
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages [341]-371) and index.
Table of contents: title: Volozhin; title: The move to Rakov; title: The making of a revolutionary; title: The boys; title: Lower East Side; title: The birth of a business; title: Socialist in a black satin dress; title: First World War; title: Pioneers; title: The Depression; title: "We will be glad to take you back"; title: In love in the land; title: Return to Rakov; title: "The world of tomorrow"; title: Second World War; title: Under the big ones; title: "They snatch whole streets"; title: "Aktion"; title: Vilna ghetto; title: Yom Kippur, 1941; title: Wonder girl; title: Breakdowns; title: Despairing people; title: Klooga; title: Postwar.