The Man Who Swam Into History: The (Mostly) True Story of My Jewish Family

by Robert A. Rosenstone

The story begins with a grandfather who heroically escaped from Russia by swimming the Pruth River to Romania--or did he? Then there are stories of another grandfather who kept a lifelong mistress; grandmothers who were ignored except in the kitchen; migrations legal and illegal from Eastern Europe to Canada to California; racketeers on one side of the family and Communists on the other; and a West Coast adolescence in the McCarthy years. All...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0292709501
• ISBN13: 9780292709508
• Release Date: September 2005
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 215 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.6" x 8.5"