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Three Journeys into the Heart of the Twentieth Century
Viking
October 2013
On Sale: October 15, 2013
400 pages
ISBN: 067002547X
EAN: 9780670025473
Kindle: B00C1N978K
Hardcover / e-Book
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Non-Fiction History
The author of the The Children’s Blizzard delivers
an epic work of twentieth century history through the
riveting story of one extraordinary Jewish family
With cinematic power and beauty, bestselling author
David Laskin brings to life the upheavals of the twentieth
century through the story of one family, three continents,
two world wars, and the rise and fall of nations.
A century and a half ago, a Torah scribe and his wife
raised six children in a yeshivatown at the western fringe
of the Russian empire. Bound by their customs and ancient
faith, the pious couple expected their sons and daughter to
carry family traditions into future generations. But the
social and political crises of our time decreed
otherwise.
The torrent of history took the
scribe’s family down three very different roads. One branch
immigrated to America and founded the fabulously successful
Maidenform Bra Company; another went to Palestine as
pioneers and participated in the contentious birth of the
state of Israel; the third branch remained in Europe and
suffered the onslaught of the Nazi occupation.
In tracing the roots of this family—his own family—Laskin
captures the epic sweep of the twentieth century. A
modern-day scribe, Laskin honors the traditions, the lives,
and the choices of his ancestors: revolutionaries and
entrepreneurs, scholars and farmers, tycoons and truck
drivers. The Family is a deeply personal, dramatic,
and emotional account of people caught in a cataclysmic time
in world history.
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