Wzhat I know about Polish history from my grandfather and grandfather. My grandfather told me the story of in the late 19th century. Great grandfather lived with his family in a Polish Jewish shtetl. The Cossacks came and one had dropped his weapon belt and was attacking my great aunt, Rivka. My great grandad took the rapists sabre and killed him. He took my great-aunt out of Poland and they worked and walked to Paris, where he studied veterinary science. Then the Drefuss crisis came about and he left for Englad and got a job. It's a long and interesting story and, therefore, "The Books of Jacob" appeal to me as touching on the same events as my family lived.
Wzhat I know about Polish history from my grandfather and grandfather. My grandfather told me the story of in the late 19th century. Great grandfather lived with his family in a Polish Jewish shtetl. The Cossacks came and one had dropped his weapon belt and was attacking my great aunt, Rivka. My great grandad took the rapists sabre and killed him. He took my great-aunt out of Poland and they worked and walked to Paris, where he studied veterinary science. Then the Drefuss crisis came about and he left for Englad and got a job. It's a long and interesting story and, therefore, "The Books of Jacob" appeal to me as touching on the same events as my family lived.