The family three fates in the twentieth century

Traces the history of the 20th century through the story of an extraordinary Jewish family, recounting how the author's 19th-century ancestors were separated by period upheavals in western Russia and went on to become the founders of the Maidenform Bra Company, pioneers in the contentious birth of I...

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Main Author: Laskin, David, 1953- (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York, New York : Viking, 2013.
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264 1 |a New York, New York :  |b Viking,  |c 2013. 
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505 0 |a Volozhin -- The move to Rakov -- The making of a revolutionary -- The boys -- Lower East Side -- The birth of a business -- Socialist in a black satin dress -- First World War -- Pioneers -- The Depression -- "We will be glad to take you back" -- In love in the land -- Return to Rakov -- "The world of tomorrow" -- Second World War -- Under the big ones -- "They snatch whole streets" -- "Aktion" -- Vilna ghetto -- Yom Kippur, 1941 -- Wonder girl -- Breakdowns -- Despairing people -- Klooga -- Postwar. 
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650 0 |a Jews, Belarusian  |z Palestine  |v Biography. 
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