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Hardcover Grandfather's Acres Book

ISBN: 9652293377

ISBN13: 9789652293374

Grandfather's Acres

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Grandfather's Acres is a novel that presents a mixed Jewish and gentile rural community in Eastern Galicia (Ukraine), at the end of the nineteenth century. An Orthodox Jewish family of farmers struggles with the hardships of daily life, tension with their alien neighbors and the changing moods of nationalism and enlightenment that are sweeping through the countryside. Moments of sorrow and those of happiness punctuate the lives of these determined and devoted Jewish farmers, against a backdrop of sometimes frightening political change. The lives and the way of life, portrayed in this novel are told with a deep admiration and love, which serves as a literary testimony to a reality that, 50 years later, went up in flames.

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from a neighbor

Part of my family comes from Skala Podolskaya, Ukraine. The village, Lanovitse, is nearby, so I had great interest in reading this fictional account of life in this village during the late 19th century to the early 20th century. This translation of the original book in yiddish is a wonderful description of what life was like for the jewish families that lived in this village, referred to as Yanovitz in the book. I highly recommend it.
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