Book description
One man's immigration to the Canadian Prairies in the early 1930s reveals the character of Canada today as sharply as it did long ago. In 1930, a young Jewish man, Yehuda Eisenstein, arrived in Canada from Poland to escape persecution and in the hopes of starting a new life for…
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Ravvin has written excellent works of fiction and literary scholarship. His book is a masterful blend of two genres: family biography and social history.
I found this book to be so engrossing I could barely put it down. It traces the author’s grandfather’s dogged saga to emigrate from Poland to Canada, to find some mooring amidst the precarity of being a new immigrant, a foreigner, and a Jew, and to try desperately to bring over his wife during a time when Canada’s immigration gates were closing.
I love this book’s ability to seamlessly alternate between deep archives-based history (how did…
From David's list on The best books on Canadian Jewish life.
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