Thanksgiving All Year Round : A Memoir

Name: Thanksgiving All Year Round : A Memoir
Brand: Academic Studies Press

Academic Studies Press

Thanksgiving All Year RoundA Memoir\nAuthor(s): Gavriel Shapiro\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Academic Studies Press, United States\nImprint: Academic Studies Press\nISBN-13: 9781618115171, 978-1618115171\nSynopsis\nThanksgiving All Year Round describes Gavriel Shapiro's eventful life, which spans over seventy years, in three different countries and on as many continents.\n\nThis book first delves into Shapiro's ancestry, thereby providing a partial slice of Russian Jewish history and offers an individual perspective on what it meant to grow up in the Soviet Union in the aftermath of WWII. Thanksgiving All Year Round also gives a personal account of the rise and development of Jewish national awareness and describes a struggle for the immigration to Israel in the late 1960s and the early 1970s through job loss, persecution, arrests, imprisonment, and trial. further, it relates the authors life in Israel, including his work at the Voice of Israel, study at the Hebrew University of Je.