ASIN: B009O5OA7Q
Publisher: Books To Believe In
Pages: 443
A sweeping saga across five generations and 250 years, the story of the family Golduke emerges from the Pale of Jewish Settlement and smothering persecution into a quest for freedom that spans the western world. From the teeming shores of Odessa's harbor, the dangerous journey stretches across the hinterlands of central Ukraine and into the deep woods of eastern Poland, evading Cossacks and pogroms, to the great Polish uprising born of the American Revolution, then becoming entangled in Britain's invasion of the Crimea against Czarist Russia. Emptying into the massive wave of immigration to the United States through Ellis Island, the family struggles up off the impoverished streets of Philadelphia's Devil's Pocket into the frontier of America's Old South, carving out a respectable life of merchants, only to discover that the old country's demons of persecution have been replaced by ...
