My Childhood Years: A Memoir by Peretz Hirshbein National Jewish Book Award Winner Tracing the origins of Jewish

Tracing the origins of Jewish names is no simple task but Benzion Kaganoff tackles it with remarkable skill

exercising unbounded force and deception

to be a Good Jew or a Bad Jew is particularly fraught at this moment

and Irena’s Children

It also contains numerous photographs culled from archives in the former Soviet Union

My Childhood Years: A Memoir by Peretz Hirshbein National Jewish Book Award Winner Tracing the origins of JewishTranslated by Leonard Wolf At the end of the nineteenth century, in an unspoiled rural corner of Eastern Europe, the sensitive youngest son of a miller lives in affinity with nature, keeping kinship with the river and trees, the animals and birds alike. While little Peretz admires the physical labor of his father and brothers, who tirelessly grind flour at the mill, he emerges as a star pupil at the local heder. He might amount to something, his proud