What Kind Of Past - 9781954176799

Remarkable records and coincidences help tell and correct the story of a Balkan Sephardic family split between Ottoman Monastir (now Bitola, North Macedonia) and New York City. A son witnesses murder, seeks refuge at a French-Jewish school in Tunisia, emigrates to Canada, vanishes, and appears in New York. The father, a secular leader of a Jewish neighborhood under the Ottomans, remains in Macedonia, remarries, and raises a second family, while witnessing the Illinden Uprising, the Balkan Wars, World War One, and finally the destruction of his community during World War Two and the Holocaust.

• | Author: Joe Youcha
• | Publisher: Jewishgen.Inc
• | Publication Date: Jul 12, 2023
• | Number of Pages: 234 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1954176791
• | ISBN-13: 9781954176799