When the River Ice Flows, I Will Come Home: A Memoir, (author) 9781644692806+-

Name: When the River Ice Flows, I Will Come Home: A Memoir, (author) 9781644692806+-
Brand: Academic Studies Press

Academic Studies Press

When the River Ice Flows, I Will Come HomeA Memoir\nAuthor(s): Elisa Miller\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Academic Studies Press, United States\nImprint: Cherry Orchard Books\nISBN-13: 9781644692806, 978-1644692806\nSynopsis\n\""When the River Ice Flows, I Will Come Home is a moving memoir that lovingly recreates the lives of Elisa Millers father and his family as Jews in the dying years of the Romanov dynasty.\""Douglas Smith, author of Former People: The Final Days of the Russian Aristocracy\n\nShortly after her fathers death, Elisa Brodinsky Miller uncovered a cache of letters among his belongings. Written in Russian and Yiddish, with datelines in Tsarist and early SovietRussia, the letters detail eight long years [tel] during which Elisas father, his five siblings, and their mother spend apart from Elisas grandfather who had left for America, believing their separation would be short.\n\nMiller, a Russian affairs specialist, learns bit by bit with each translation about the family.