Description
| Product ID: | 9781644692806 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | US |
| Title: | When the River Ice Flows, I Will Come Home |
| Subtitle: | A Memoir |
| Authors: | Author: Elisa Brodinsky Miller |
| Page Count: | 200 |
| Subjects: | Diaries, letters and journals, Diaries, letters & journals, Memoirs, European history, History, Family history, tracing ancestors, Memoirs, European history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, Family history, tracing ancestors, Russia, USA, 20th century |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating A captivating memoir that bridges the past with the present, as we learn about the author’s grandparents' drives to escape the Jewish worlds of Tsarist Russia, her immigrant parents' hopes for their marriage in America, and now her turn to reach for meaning and purpose: each a generation of aspirations - first theirs, now hers. "When the River Ice Flows, I Will Come Home is a moving memoir that lovingly recreates the lives of Elisa Miller’s father and his family as Jews in the dying years of the Romanov dynasty." —Douglas Smith, author of Former People: The Final Days of the Russian Aristocracy Shortly after her father’s death, Elisa Brodinsky Miller uncovered a cache of letters among his belongings. Written in Russian and Yiddish, with datelines in Tsarist and early Soviet Russia, the letters detail eight long years (1914-1922) during which Elisa’s father, his five siblings, and their mother spend apart from Elisa’s grandfather who had left for America, believing their separation would be short. Miller, a Russian affairs specialist, learns bit by bit with each translation about the family she knew so little about, and the eight years of history they lived through, enabling her for the first time to connect her own experiences with those who came before her. This captivating memoir bridges the past with the present, as we learn about her grandparents’ struggles to escape Tsarist Russia, her parents’ hopes for their marriage in America, and her own reach for meaning and purpose: each a generation with dreams—first theirs, now hers. |
| Imprint Name: | Academic Studies Press |
| Publisher Name: | Academic Studies Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2020-05-28 |