Tears over Russia : a search for family and the legacy of Ukraine's pogroms / Lisa Brahin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brahin, Lisa, author.

Contributor:

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pogroms--Ukraine--History--20th century.

Pogroms.

Jews--Persecutions--Ukraine--History--20th century.

Jews.

Jewish families--Ukraine--Biography.

Jewish families.

Families.

Jews--Persecutions.

Caprove, Anne, 1912-2003.

Caprove, Anne.

Brahin, Lisa--Family.

Brahin, Lisa.

Ukraine.

Genre:

History.

Instructional and educational works.

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xxvi, 305 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), portraits (some color) ; 24 cm

Edition:

First Pegasus Books cloth edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Pegasus Books, 2022.

Summary:

"Between 1917 and 1921, twenty years before the Holocaust began, an estimated 100,000 to 250,000 Jews were murdered in anti-Jewish pogroms across Ukraine. Lisa grew up transfixed by her grandmother Channa's stories about her family being forced to flee their hometown of Stavishche, as armies and bandit groups raided village after village, killing Jewish residents. Channa described a perilous three-year journey through Russia and Romania, led at first by a gallant American who had snuck into Ukraine to save his immediate family and ended up leading an exodus of nearly eighty to safety. With almost no published sources to validate her grandmother's tales, Lisa embarked on her incredible journey to tell Channa's story, forging connections with archivists around the world to find elusive documents to fill in the gaps of what happened in Stavishche. She also tapped into connections closer to home, gathering testimonies from her grandmother's relatives, childhood friends and neighbors. The result is a moving historical family narrative that speaks to universal human themes--the resilience and hope of ordinary people surviving the ravages of history and human cruelty. With the growing passage of time, it is unlikely that we will see another family saga emerge so richly detailing this forgotten time period. Tears Over Russia eloquently proves that true life is sometimes more compelling than fiction." -- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. I CALM BEFORE THE STORM: 1876-1918

ch. One Family Folklore

ch. Two A Total Eclipse

ch. Three A Passover Tragedy

ch. Four Days of Innocence

ch. Five Avrum Cutler's Brief Betrothals

ch. Six Count Wladyslaw Branicki and the Noble Family of Stavishche

pt. II THE POGROMS: 1917-1920

ch. Seven Stavishche Under Siege

ch. Eight Grigoriev's Bandits

ch. Nine From Village to Village

ch. Ten Ataman Zeleny Meets Rabbi Pitsie Avram

ch. Eleven The Murder of Bessie Cutler's Husband

ch. Twelve General Denikin's Militia

ch. Thirteen Refuge in Belaya Tserkov

pt. III EXODUS TO THE GOLDENE MEDINA, 1920-1925

ch. Fourteen There Was a Place Nearby, Where They Made the Little Coffins

ch. Fifteen The Unlikely Arrival of Barney Stumacher, an American Hero

ch. Sixteen The Great Escape: The Wagon Trains

ch. Seventeen The Perilous Crossing of the Dniester River

ch. Eighteen Adventures in Romania

ch. Nineteen Life in Kishinev

ch. Twenty Journey on the SS Braga

ch. Twenty-One America: The First Years

pt. IV REBECCA AND ISAACS CHILDREN: SELECT STORIES IN PHILADELPHIA, 1926-1941

ch. Twenty-Two Struggling in the Golden Land

ch. Twenty-Three The Story of Anne and Ben

ch. Twenty-Four When Sunny Met Harry

ch. Twenty-Five Beryl

pt. V RABBIS AND REUNIONS 1941-1950 RAINBOWS 1925 AND 2003

ch. Twenty-Six Rabbi Pitsie Avram in the Bronx

ch. Twenty-Seven The Events That Defined Their Lives in the New World

ch. Twenty-Eight Rainbows

Appendices

A. The Colorful History of Branicki Palace and the Secret Identity of Its First Countess

B. Funeral Speech for Count Wladyslaw M. Branicki, Last Nobleman of Stavishche: Sucha, Poland, September 21, 1922

C. The Stavishche Pogrom Tombstone List (Partial), 1918-1920

D. Partial List of Stavishche Residents Murdered by Grigoriev's Band, Headed by Zhelezniak, June 1919

E. A Partial Pogrom Memorial List, 1920

F. Death List (Partial): Stavishche, (Translated from Yiddish into English)

G. The Pogrom Survivors: Stavishche, 1923

H. Fates of the Villagers, 1920s

I. Famine, Fascists, and the Holocaust: Stavishche, 1931-1945

J. Searching for a Historical Treasure: The Megilat Ha-tevah, Tel Aviv, 2003

K. The Stunning Discovery of the Stavishche Torah Crown, 2005.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-305).

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

ISBN:

1639361677

9781639361670

OCLC:

1281584748

Publisher Number:

99991215597