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What you did not tell : a Russian past and the journey home

Title
What you did not tell : a Russian past and the journey home / Mark Mazower.
Author
Mazower, Mark
Publication
New York : Other Press, [2017]

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Description
379 pages : illustrations (some color), map; 22 cm
Summary
"In a tribute to his late father, British historian Mark Mazower traces his family's story from the end of the nineteenth century to today, beginning with his grandfather Mordkhel Mazower's birth in the town of Grodno, part of the Pale of Settlement to which the majority of the Russian Empire's Jews were confined. An activist and member of the Communist Bund, Mordkhel--who later assumed the more European name "Max"--travelled widely in the years surrounding the Revolution before ultimately settling in England, where his son would live his entire life"--
Subject
  • Mazower, Mark > Family
  • Historians > England > Biography
  • BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs
  • HISTORY / Jewish
  • HISTORY / Russia & the Former Soviet Union
  • Historians - England - Biography
  • Mazower, Mark - Family
Genre/Form
Autobiographies.
Contents
On West Hill -- The bundist -- 1905 -- The Yost Typewriting Company -- Border crossing, 1919 -- Brits and Bolsheviks -- Wood end -- The afterlife -- Zachar -- The expanding silence -- André -- The Krylenko Connection -- Frouma -- Highgate -- The sheltering word -- Ira -- Childhood -- The war -- Oxford and what came between -- The shed -- Family trees; Mazower Family; Toumarkine Family.
Call Number
JFD 17-6044
ISBN
  • 9781590519073
  • 1590519078
LCCN
  • 2017004535
  • 40027594368
OCLC
971615559
Author
Mazower, Mark, author.
Title
What you did not tell : a Russian past and the journey home / Mark Mazower.
Publisher
New York : Other Press, [2017]
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Other Standard Identifier
40027594368
Research Call Number
JFD 17-6044
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