Between Tel Aviv and Moscow: A Life of Dissent and Exile in Mandate Palestine and the Soviet Union

Synopsis

Leah Trachtman-Palchan was an ordinary woman who lived an extraordinary life. This was a life of migration, dissent, exile and survival. Born in the final years of Tsarist Russia, her family was forced to leave their small town following the repeated pogroms of the Civil War era. A two year voyage followed, bringing them all to British Mandate Palestine in 1921. Here what seems like a typical Jewish story of migration from Eastern Europe in the early twentieth century took an unexpected turn. As a teenager, Leah joined the Communist movement in Palestine – illegal under the British Mandate. She was arrested, imprisoned and eventually deported by the British to the Soviet Union. This memoir is filled with colourful, and sometimes harrowing, sketches of the people who passed through her life during the era of Stalin's Great Purges and the evacuation of factories to Siberia during World War II. Shedding new light on both Mandate Palestine and the Jewish experience in Soviet Moscow, this book reveals the remarkable story of a woman living through some of the most pivotal events of twentieth-century history.

Copyright:

2015

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

ISBN-13:

9780857737298

Related ISBNs:

9781784530808

Publisher:

Bloomsbury Publishing

Date of Addition:

11/01/19

Copyrighted By:

N/A

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

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No

Categories:

History, Military, Nonfiction, Biographies and Memoirs, Religion and Spirituality, Politics and Government

Submitted By:

Bookshare Staff

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This is a copyrighted book.

Edited by:

Nir Arielli