Multicultural Book Group talks ‘The Family’
Published 3:00 pm Monday, May 9, 2016
Multicultural Book Group talks ‘The Family’
From staff reports
The Multicultural Book Group will be discussing “The Family” by David Laskin at their June meeting.
“The Family” is a true account of Laskin’s family. A century and a half ago, a Torah scribe and his wife raised six children in a yeshiva town at the western fringe of the Russian Empire.
Bound by their customs and ancient faith, the pious couple expected their sons and daughter to carry family traditions into future generations, but the social and political crises of our time decreed otherwise.
The torrent of history took the scribe’s family down three very different roads. One branch emigrated to America and founded the fabulously successful Maidenform Bra Company, another went to Palestine as pioneers and participated in the contentious birth of the state of Israel and the third branch remained in Europe and suffered the onslaught of the Nazi occupation.
The group will meet on June 8 at 7 p.m. at the Federal Way 320th Library to discuss the book.
