This charming memoir by Bella Chagall recalls her childhood in Vitebsk, the Russian-Jewish market town where she and her husband, Marc Chagall, grew up. Her warm reminiscences of Jewish family life in pre-Revolutionary Russia are illustrated with thirty-six pen-and-ink drawings by Marc Chagall.
Bella Chagall, a gifted author and actress, was the youngest of seven children born to a well-to-do Hasidic family. While living in France in the 1930s, the Chagalls conceived the idea of commemorating their native town with a book. The title they chose was Burning Lights, an allusion to the festive candles that in their childhood had lit up the holidays of the Jewish year.
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Höhe: 216 mm
Breite: 140 mm
Dicke: 17 mm
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978-0-8052-0863-4 (9780805208634)
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Bella Chagall was a Jewish writer from Belarus and the wife of painter Marc Chagall. Her two books, The Burning Lights and First Encounter, received critical praise at the time of their release.
