Horodno Burning - Freed-Thall, Michael
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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 which led to the great migration, when…mehr

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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 which led to the great migration, when one-and-a-half million Jews emigrated to America between 1881 and 1914, Horodno Burning is a love letter to literature, freedom, and Jewish survival.
Autorenporträt
When he's not cutting next winter's firewood, pulling weeds in the garden, or off on an adventure with his wife, Patricia, Michael Freed-Thall is probably staring at his computer waiting for inspiration. When he retired after thirty years as a teacher and principal in Vermont schools, he took up writing. He is a past director of the Burlington Writers Workshop and in 2018 co-edited that organization's annual publication. He received a scholarship to the Vermont Studio Center, and was chosen for the Writer to Writer Mentorship Program with the Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP). He finished his first book, "Horodno Burning," a novel about literature, freedom, and Jewish survival, because of those opportunities. Learn more at michaelfreedthall.com.