The family : three journeys into the heart of the twentieth century / David Laskin.
Laskin, David, 1953- author.
2013
DS135.B383 A155 2013 (Mapit)
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Title The family : three journeys into the heart of the twentieth century / David Laskin.
Author Laskin, David, 1953- author.
ISBN 9780670025473 hardcover
067002547X hardcover
Published New York : Viking, 2013.
Copyright ©2013
Language English
Description xi, 383 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Call Number DS135.B383 A155 2013
Dewey Decimal Classification 929.20973
Summary 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.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-371) and index.
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"We will be glad to take you back"
In love in the land
Return to Rakov
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Breakdowns
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