A Backpack, a Bear, and Eight Crates of Vodka (Audiobook)

from traumleben

A well-written and oft humorous account by Lev Golinkin about his family's indirect emigration to the US as Soviet Jews as well as his personal struggle with identity. While the context of this story is a disintegrating Soviet Union and the Golinkin family's departure from the Ukraine, the challe...

from Beamis12

Golinkin was only eleven when he with his father, mother, sister and grandmother fled the Ukraine. Although they were a non secular Jewish family, persecution in the school, and society in general made this a must decision. This takes place in the 1980's, and although things are slowly changing i...

from Clara53

I thought I knew a lot about emigration, myself being an emigre. But this book opened my eyes, to a previously unknown degree, on a particular group of immigrants, Soviet Jews. For them, the process to leave the Soviet Union was an excruciating one, and all this through the eyes of a 10-year-old,...

from dele2451

If you've ever given a coat to a donation drive and wondered if it made any difference, this book is for you. If you've never donated to charity or are burned out on volunteering and supporting charities, make this book your next read.

from Clara53

I thought I knew a lot about emigration, myself being an emigre. But this book opened my eyes, to a previously unknown degree, on a particular group of immigrants, Soviet Jews. For them, the process to leave the Soviet Union was an excruciating one, and all this through the eyes of a 10-year-old,...