Soul to Soul: A Black Russian Jewish Woman's Search for Her Roots - Softcover

Khanga, Yelena

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0393311554 ISBN 13: 9780393311556

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 1994

Synopsis

“Tells the remarkable story of Ms. Khanga’s family, shedding light into unfamiliar corners of both the Soviet and American pasts. . . . [An] unusual and fascinating odyssey. . . . However Yelena Khanga reconciles the complex strands of her ancestry in the future, she has, in Soul to Soul, already made a contribution to retrieving a piece of the Soviet Union’s unknown history.” ―Eric Foner, New York Times Book Review

Yelena Khanga tells the compelling story of growing up black in Russia and journeying through cultures to learn about her forebears and meet relatives she had never known. From the days of slavery in the cotton fields of Mississippi to the Moscow of Stalin and Brezhnev, from Jewish New York and Harlem in the twenties to modern-day Los Angeles, Long Island, and Zanzibar, Soul to Soul is a four-generation family memoir.

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Yelena Khanga tells the compelling story of growing up black in Russia and journeying through cultures to learn about her forebears and meet relatives she had never known. From the days of slavery in the cotton fields of Mississippi to the Moscow of Stalin and Brezhnev, from Jewish New York and Harlem in the twenties to modern-day Los Angeles, Long Island, and Zanzibar, Soul to Soul is a four-generation family memoir.

About this edition

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0393311554
• ISBN 13: 9780393311556
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352