02060cam a2200349 i 4500 1172798754 TxAuBib 20240321120000.0 130520s2013||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2013017047 9780670025473 $32.00 067002547X $32.00 (OCoLC)834432660 TxAuBib rda Laskin, David, 1953-, author. The family : three fates in the twentieth century / David Laskin. New York, New York : Viking, 2013. xi, 383 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, genealogical table, portraits ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages [341]-371) and index. Volozhin -- The move to Rakov -- The making of a revolutionary -- The boys -- Lower East Side -- The birth of a business -- Socialist in a black satin dress -- First World War -- Pioneers -- The Depression -- "We will be glad to take you back" -- In love in the land -- Return to Rakov -- "The world of tomorrow" -- Second World War -- Under the big ones -- "They snatch whole streets" -- "Aktion" -- Vilna ghetto -- Yom Kippur, 1941 -- Wonder girl -- Breakdowns -- Despairing people -- Klooga -- Postwar. Traces the history of the 20th century through the story of an extraordinary Jewish family, recounting how the author's 19th-century ancestors were separated by period upheavals in western Russia and went on to become the founders of the Maidenform Bra Company, pioneers in the contentious birth of Israel, and victims of the Holocaust. 20240321. Kaganovich family. Laskin, David, 1953- Jews Belarus Biography. Jews, Belarusian United States Biography. Jews, Belarusian Palestine Biography. Valozhyn (Belarus) Biography.