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Soul to soul : a Black Russian Jewish woman's search for her roots

Author: Yelena Khanga; Susan Jacoby
Publisher: New York : W.W. Norton, ©1994, ©1992.
Edition/Format:  Print book : Biography : EnglishView all editions and formats
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The author discusses her experiences growing up black in Russia, and chronicles her search for ancestors which took her from the days of slavery in the cotton fields of Mississippi to modern-day Los Angeles, Long Island, and Zanzibar.
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Genre/Form: Biographies
Biography
Named Person: Yelena Khanga; Yelena Khanga
Material Type: Biography
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Yelena Khanga; Susan Jacoby
ISBN: 0393034046 9780393034042 0393311554 9780393311556
OCLC Number: 829332848
Notes: Includes index.
Description: 317 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Responsibility: Yelena Khanga with Susan Jacoby.

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As the Soviet Union crumbled in early 1991, a young Russian woman in search of her past found her way to Mississippi, to the rich cotton land where her great-grandfather, a former slave, had become  Read more...

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