Description
In the Russian Empire's Pale of Settlement, Esther Leving, a brilliant young bibliophile, chafes at male dominance, religious dogma, and antisemitism. Bernard Garfinkle, a religious Jew and the son of a vodka distiller, hides a shameful secret-in a culture that worships books, he can't read. Despite their differences, they fall in love. Esther teaches Bernard to read and he in turn builds her a bookshop. They start a family, but when ferocious pogroms target Russian Jews, they must confront violent oppression.
Exploring the turbulent history of the late 19th century that led to the migration of one-and-a-half million Jews from czarist Russia to America, Horodno Burning is a love letter to literature, freedom, and Jewish survival.
Author: Michael Freed-Thall
Publisher: Rootstock Publishing
Published: 09/21/2021
Pages: 330
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.44lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.88d
ISBN13: 9781578690725
ISBN10: 1578690722
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Jewish
- Fiction | World Literature | Russia | 19th Century
- Fiction | Historical | General