{"product_id":"playing-detective-with-family-lore-daniella-weiss-ashkenazy-9789657041161","title":"Playing Detective with Family Lore: How plugging the holes in a family history unintentionally came to tell the saga of Jews in a microcosm","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003ePlaying Detective with Family Lore\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e is more than one family's saga.\u003c\/strong\u003e The far-ranging origins of the author's family and the course of the progenitors' lives and those of their descendants provide a microcosmic illustration of the macro-level triumphs and tragedies of Jewish life in Eastern Europe and America. From the tiny Radekhiv shtetl to the famous Polish market town Jaroslaw, from the Russian port city Nikolayev - inside of the Pale of Settlement during the 1905 pogroms, to Jassy - rife with unique antisemitic legislation following Romanian independence, this book unwittingly traces a collective history epitomized by one particular family's combined narratives, making it a 'must read' for the 80% of American Jews who trace their ancestry back to Eastern Europe.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003ePlaying Detective with Family Lore\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e goes beyond \u003cem\u003eResearching Your Family History Online for Dummies\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/strong\u003e Offering more than a ringside seat how to mine information online, the author, a seasoned journalist, shares her expertise with budding memoirists. She explores how the skills and the logic of a Sherlock Holmes can be employed to stitch together snippets of information in order to forge a more coherent whole that may confirm, contest, augment, or complicate oral family lore.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eNot your run-of-the-mill memoir, \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e the structure is a tad unique. Sprinkled at the bottom of the pages, academic footnotes are repurposed to create a new genre: Experiential Reading. The links to historical footage, photos, and short texts make reading this work closer to a virtual museum than a traditional e-book.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Daniella Weiss Ashkenazy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 9657041163\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9789657041161\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Jewishselfpublishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/19\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 450\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.32lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.91d","brand":"Daniella Weiss Ashkenazy","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43943877968127,"sku":"9789657041161","price":18.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_6da52ef1-d936-411e-b488-4bbdb83cb014.jpg?v=1681500545","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/playing-detective-with-family-lore-daniella-weiss-ashkenazy-9789657041161","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}