9780143125891-0143125893-The Family: A Journey into the Heart of the Twentieth Century

The Family: A Journey into the Heart of the Twentieth Century

ISBN-13: 9780143125891
ISBN-10: 0143125893
Edition: Reprint
Author: David Laskin
Publication date: 2014
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Format: Paperback 416 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780143125891
ISBN-10: 0143125893
Edition: Reprint
Author: David Laskin
Publication date: 2014
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Format: Paperback 416 pages

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The Family: A Journey into the Heart of the Twentieth Century (ISBN-13: 9780143125891 and ISBN-10: 0143125893), written by authors David Laskin, was published by Penguin Publishing Group in 2014. With an overall rating of 3.5 stars, it's a notable title among other Cultural & Regional (Culinary Biographies, Cooking Education & Reference, Jewish, World History) books. You can easily purchase or rent The Family: A Journey into the Heart of the Twentieth Century (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Cultural & Regional books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.54.

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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

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.

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.

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.
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