ISBN : 9782296559462
EAN PDF : 9782296479067
EAN ePUB : 9782296819146
Éditeur : Editions L'Harmattan
Nombre de pages : 188
Date : 1- 2012
Some of Them - The Story of a Russian, Jewish Family and its Worldwide Peregrinations in Times of War and Revolution
Jan Van Rij
Leaving behind an impoverished and threatened existence in 19th century anti-semitic tsarist Russia, a Jewish family make a new life and a fortune in Japan and China, in a region dominated by the struggle between the great powers, as chandlers and trusted partners of the Imperial Russian Navy prior to and during the Russo-Japanese war of 1904. Upon their return to Russia they become honoured citizens of Saint Petersburg until Bolshevism drives them out again to new uncertainties in the West.