Horodno Burning (Hardcover)

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 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
• | Publication Date: 21-Sep-21
• | Number of Pages: 330 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 1578690722
• | ISBN-13: 9781578690725