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My Little Life - Couverture souple

Vinar, Benjamin

 
9781480807396: My Little Life
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1480807397 ISBN 13 : 9781480807396
Editeur : ArchwayPublishing, 2014

Synopsis

Not every immigrant who came to America went from rags to riches. Benjamin Vinar's parents grew up in comfortable circumstances in a town called Ostrog in the Ukraine, but their circumstances quickly changed with the bloody arrival of World War I and the Russian Revolution. They barely made it out alive, escaping to the United States, where they settled in Rock Island, Illinois. Benjamin's parents often reminisced at the dinner table about the Ostrog of their youth, a largely Jewish community of roughly eight thousand souls. Meanwhile, their life in the American Midwest was a constant struggle. As a child Benjamin saw his father use all his strength to move iron stoves and massive oak furniture about his secondhand store to eke out a living. As Benjamin grew up, his peers deserted earlier ways, and the once-vibrant Jewish community declined as his generation deserted their grandfathers' ways en masse. It was already fading out of existence by the time he went to law school. In My Little Life, he breathes life back into what's been lost, celebrating his Jewish heritage and sharing an important historical account, while intricately exploring the mindset that his upbringing produced in him.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Not every immigrant who came to America went from rags to riches. Benjamin Vinar's parents grew up in comfortable circumstances in a town called Ostrog in the Ukraine, but their circumstances quickly changed with the bloody arrival of World War I and the Russian Revolution. They barely made it out alive, escaping to the United States, where they settled in Rock Island, Illinois. Benjamin's parents often reminisced at the dinner table about the Ostrog of their youth, a largely Jewish community of roughly eight thousand souls. Meanwhile, their life in the American Midwest was a constant struggle. As a child Benjamin saw his father use all his strength to move iron stoves and massive oak furniture about his secondhand store to eke out a living. As Benjamin grew up, his peers deserted earlier ways, and the once-vibrant Jewish community declined as his generation deserted their grandfathers' ways en masse. It was already fading out of existence by the time he went to law school. In My Little Life, he breathes life back into what's been lost, celebrating his Jewish heritage and sharing an important historical account, while intricately exploring the mindset that his upbringing produced in him.

Biographie de l'auteur

Benjamin Vinar grew up in Rock Island, Illinois. The child of Jewish immigrants from the shtetl of Ostrog in post-World War I Poland, he became a lawyer in New York City. His love of history, language, poetry and family are reflected in this record of his life.

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Éditeur
ArchwayPublishing
Date d'édition
2014
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1480807397
ISBN 13 
9781480807396
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
430
Coordonnées du fabricant
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