
Zev's Children
An International Jewish Family
Kenneth Collins(Editor)
Vallentine Mitchell & Co Ltd (Publisher)
Published on 18. November 2021
Book
Paperback/Softback
200 pages
978-1-80371-007-5 (ISBN)
Description
Kenneth Collins, the leading chronicler of Scotland's Jews and a medical historian, tells the story of his family from its origins in Ukraine in the first half of the eighteenth century. He follows the descendants of his great-grandfather Zev Kagarlitsky in Russia, America, Argentina, France, Israel, England, and Scotland. Zev was born in a village near Kiev in 1854 and died in Tel Aviv in 1931. There is a cast of colourful characters including Marxists in Russia, a Holocaust survivor in France, an unexpected death of a Soviet commercial agent in London, early Zionist pioneers and businessmen in Scotland and America. Collin's grandfather arrived in Glasgow in 1912 and he explores the family integration into the business and professional life of Scotland's largest city, and home of most of its Jewish community. The book uses archival research in four continents, genealogical connections, and oral history to tell a story of a family whose experience mirrors Jewish life over almost three centuries. This is a warm and lively account of an international family that has succeeded in maintaining close links over succeeding generations, from Buenos Aires to Moscow and from the West Coast.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Ilford
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
295 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-80371-007-5 (9781803710075)
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Person
Kenneth Collins is Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for the History of Medicine at the University of Glasgow and Visiting Professor, History of Medicine, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.