This is a charming portrait of childhood in the Russian market town where the great painter and his wife grew up. Bella's warm, humorous stories of her pious Jewish family are illustrated by 36 of her husband's pen-and-ink line drawings.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
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enchanting child's-eye memoir of Russian Jewish life,
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With illustrations by her husband Marc, Bella Chagall's memoir comes from the poignant brush strokes of childhood, focusing on Jewish holidays and family life. If you are curious about the life your immigrant forebears left behind, this will satisfy. I highly recommend it.
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Preliminary......,
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A preliminary review - I read this book years and years ago - and it has stuck with me. Such visual images - this little girls walking around in her fathers jewelreystore. Just got it, and just save it to be reread at a time when I am in a more 'reflexive mood'. Will then come back with comments - but I am almost afraid - I have changed, will I still be enticed????????
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Touching,
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This book was penetrating and witty, giving a portrait of pre-war Vitebsk that makes the reader feel transported back to that time and location. Sweet without being cloying, the memoir bursts from the pages as if Bella were in front of you, holding a conversation with you.
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IT IS an odd thing: a desire comes to me write, and to write in my faltering mother tongue, which, as it happens, I have not spoken since I left the home of my parents. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
gentile maid, good shabbes, ten kopeks, little violin Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Reb Laib, Elijah the Prophet, Lord of the Universe, Reb Shmul Noah, New Year, Silent Prayer, Book of Esther, King Ahasuerus, May God New!
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IT IS an odd thing: a desire comes to me write, and to write in my faltering mother tongue, which, as it happens, I have not spoken since I left the home of my parents. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
gentile maid, good shabbes, ten kopeks, little violin Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Reb Laib, Elijah the Prophet, Lord of the Universe, Reb Shmul Noah, New Year, Silent Prayer, Book of Esther, King Ahasuerus, May God New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Marc Chagall: My Life by Marc Chagall in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
- Jewish Women in Historical Perspective by Judith R. Baskin in Front Matter
- Women of the Word: Jewish Women and Jewish Writing by Judith R. Baskin in Front Matter
- First Encounter by Bella Chagall in Front Matter
- Divergent Jewish Cultures: Israel and America by Professor Deborah Dash Moore on 7 pages
- A Breath of Life: Feminism in the American Jewish Community (Brandeis Series in American Jewish History, Culture and Life) by Sylvia Barack Fishman on page 67, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- American Klezmer: Its Roots and Offshoots by Mark Slobin on page 160, page 172, and Back Matter
- Because God Loves Stories: An Anthology of Jewish Storytelling by Steve Zeitlin on page 57, and Back Matter
- Gender and Assimilation in Modern Jewish History: The Roles and Representation of Women (The Samuel & Althea Stroum Lectures in Jewish Studies) by Paula E. Hyman on page 65, and Back Matter
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