Burning Lights

This charming memoir by Bella Chagall recalls her childhood in Vitebsk, the Russian-Jewish market town where she and her husband, Marc Chagall, grew up. Her warm reminiscences of Jewish family life in pre-Revolutionary Russia are illustrated with thirty-six pen-and-ink drawings by Marc Chagall.

Bella Chagall, a gifted author and actress, was the youngest of seven children born to a well-to-do Hasidic family. While living in France in the 1930s, the Chagalls conceived the idea of commemorating their native town with a book. The title they chose was Burning Lights, an allusion to the festive candles that in their childhood had lit up the holidays of the Jewish year.

Author: Bella Chagall
Publisher: Schocken Books Inc
Published: 04/19/1988
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.79lbs
Size: 8.72h x 6.26w x 0.71d
ISBN13: 9780805208634
ISBN10: 0805208631
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Women
- Biography & Autobiography | Historical
- History | Russia & the Former Soviet Union

About the Author
BELLA ROSENFELD CHAGALL (November 1985 - September 1944) was a Jewish Belarusian writer and the first wife of painter Marc Chagall. Chagall's works include The Burning Lights and First Encounter.