Archangel
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Word Count
24,000 words, Guess
Page Count
96 pages
Physical Format
Paperback
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL27589775M
- ISBN-139780224097420
- ISBN-100224097423
- OCLC Control Number819519311
- Library of Congress Control Number2013375926
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- Amazon0224097423
Classifications
- LCCPR6069.H74
Description
"[Shukman] explores a little-known piece of Jewish history, in a sequence of poems that forms the centrepiece of this book. In 1917 several thousand Jewish tailors were deported from London and shipped back to Archangel and the Russian Empire they had recently fled, ostensibly to fight on the Eastern Front. They arrived just as the Revolution was unfolding and the old regime was collapsing into chaos. Among them were Shukman's grandfather and great-uncle, and these poems chronicle their four-year struggle to return to their wives and children in London. ..."--Book flap.
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