{"product_id":"my-life-from-a-russian-shtetl-to-the-golden-land-by-samuel-osipow","title":"My Life: From a Russian Shtetl to the Golden Land by Samuel Osipow","description":"\u003cdiv id=\"iframeContent\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSamuel Osipow was born in 1883 in the Russian shtetl (Yiddish for town) of Liadi, lost to World War II. In his colorful and lyrical autobiography, \u003ci\u003eMy Life: From a Russian Shtetl to the Golden Land\u003c\/i\u003e, Liadi lives again. Its Jewish holy days; Osipow's loving mother Rishe Ranyeh; his pious, Hebrew teacher father Nachum; cousins Izzy the Tiny One and Chonale the Monster; dreaded teacher Kulye the Ox; nemesis Itse the One-Eyed; and local legend Avreml the Yeast Maker all come back to life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOsipow's father forces him to study scripture day and night to become a rabbi, but at 16, he rebels and leaves home. He hears a speech on \"justice and righteousness,\" source for the chapter \"I Set Out to Rebuild the World.\" He demonstrates against anti-Semitism, and is jailed, as explained in the chapter \"The Bund Seeks to Enter Smolensk.\" Released from jail, he flees to London, publishes a socialist newspaper, battles with anarchists, and protests pogroms in Russia. His future wife joins him from Russia, a son is born, and in 1906 they sail to America. The distinctive, occasionally tumultuous immigrant life that ensues is worth a book of its own.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMy Life\u003c\/i\u003e was written in Yiddish in 1954 and was translated to English in 2012 by the late Murray Sachs, professor emeritus of romance and comparative literature at Brandeis University.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePaperback book 2015\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"ING","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44181779775575,"sku":"hev1787285271993","price":10.71,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0631\/1706\/6327\/files\/my-life-from-a-russian-shtetl-to-the-golden-land-by-samuel-osipow_1.jpg?v=1787285276","url":"https:\/\/chicedgestore.shop\/products\/my-life-from-a-russian-shtetl-to-the-golden-land-by-samuel-osipow","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}