Product Description
As a Soviet Union crumbled in early 1991, a immature Russian lady in hunt of her past found her approach to Mississippi, to a abounding string land where her great-grandfather, a former slave, had turn a largest black landowner in Yazoo County. In this surprising memoir, we share a life and family bequest of a Khangas over 4 generations and 3 continents. 32 pages of photos.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #1251217 in Books
- Published on: 1994-06
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Hardcover
- 318 pages
Features
- A four-generational family story that unfolds opposite 125 years and 3 continents-from 19th century Mississippi string fields to newcomer Jewish New York and Harlem in a 1920s; from a Soviet Union dejected by Stalin's persecution to today's hoped for rising democracy; from Los Angeles to London, to a hearth of Yelena's father, a island of Zanzibar. A story of adore and a story of rejection.
Editorial Reviews
From Publishers Weekly
With freelance author Jacoby, Russian publisher Khanga offers a efficient comment of an surprising heritage. Her maternal grandparents were American Communists who in 1931 changed from New York City to Soviet Uzbekistan to rise a string industry: her grandfather, Oliver Golden, was black and a son of a slave; and her grandmother, Warsaw-born Bertha Bialek Golden, was a Jewish daughter of a Hebrew-school clergyman and mantle worker. Khanga's mother, Lily Golden, became a initial academician during a African Institute of a Soviet Academy of Sciences, that Khrushchev combined during a idea of Golden family crony W.E.B. Du Bois. Khanga's father, Abdullah, was an African autonomy personality who treated Lily like a normal Muslim wife, locking her inside a home when he went out; in 1965 he was assassinated by domestic opponents in his local Zanzibar. Khanga describes a pitfalls of flourishing adult in white, anti-American Soviet society, her stating stints during a Moscow News revolutionized by glasnost and her work as an sell publisher during a Christian Science Monitor in Boston. In America, she travels a nation and finds her Bialek and Golden relatives. She is dogmatic about American injustice and reactions to African Americans, but, given her twin heritage, her treatments of African American anti-Semitism and American Jewry are curiously cursory. Photos not seen by PW.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
By Yelena Khanga
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3 of 4 people found a following examination helpful.
By Q. Butts-Willis
I review this book as a book bar preference a few years ago. we had doubts about it -- though after we review it--I desired it. Ms. Yelena Khanga is a Black Russian women who discovers her birthright and her adore of jounalism. Khanga has such a abounding family history, American (Black and white), Russian and African. As she tells her story she is unashame and relentless in detailing a contribution - good and bad. Her family leaves New York in a early 1900's and lives in Russia. As a story unfolds, a family has been concerned in Russian and African politics, her grandparents and father-- that is an inexpected twist. She is a really clever lady who comes to American as a publisher and rediscovers a life her family left behind. This story is surprising and unpredictable. After reading a book, we felt engrossed in family history-- not usually American history, though Russian and African history.
If we are a fan of family story as we am - we will like this book.
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