The Place Where Nobody Stopped

By Jerry Segal

Book Overview

A Jewish man plants himself in a lonely Russian baker's house and establishes a family while waiting for permission to go to America. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0531058972
• ISBN13: 9780531058978
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: Orchard Books
• Length: 154 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 0.8" x 6.3"
• Age Range: 11 to 13 years
• Grade Range: Grades 6 to 8

Customer Reviews

A wonderful tale of life in Czarist Russia

This book is written in a style very reminiscent of the Jewish and Russian storytellers. The wonderful rhytmn and pacing of the words help paint a vivid picture of the characters: the poetic and learned, but unrealistic Mordecai ben Yahbahbai; the steady and handsome Yuri the woodcutter; beautiful Liebeh, Mordecai's daughter, yearning to learn to read; the lonely, but kindly Yossip the Baker; and the fierce, cruel Sergeant Major of the Czar's army. This simple tale also gives a little picture of peasant life under the Czar. When Liebeh asked why her little shouldn't go fishing to try out a new lure, Yuri replies, "Because the fish belong to the Czar... the brook belongs to the Czar... In this forest everthing -- and everyone -- belongs to the Czar... Taking anything from the Czar's forest is punishable by death."

great book

I thought this was a very good book. I'd write more, but I am sick of reviewing at the moment