Mendel's Children: A Family Chronicle

by Cherie Smith

Through a unique combination of biography, memoir, and autobiography, Cherie Smith traces four generations of her immigrant family and, in doing so, charts the very course of Russian-Jewish immigration to the Canadian prairies over the last one hundred years. Mendel's Children: A Family Chronicle begins in the shtetles of Poland and Latvia in the 1890s and follows an often wild and woolly assortment of relatives as they strive to become Canadians...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1895176859
• ISBN13: 9781895176858
• Release Date: September 1997
• Publisher: University of Calgary Press
• Length: 191 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 8.9"