To Wear the Dust of War: From Bialystok to Shanghai to the Promised Land, an Oral History

by Samuel Iwry

On the eve of World War I, ten-year-old Samuel Iwry and his family joined other Jewish refugees in fleeing Poland for Russia. At age twenty-nine, Iwry was forced to flee again--this time from the Soviets--and ended up in Shanghai, joining 20,000 Jewish refugees already there. The story of the diaspora caused by the Holocaust is well-known, but the Far Eastern dimension has come to light only very recently. Iwry's story unfolds in his own compelling...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1403965765
• ISBN13: 9781403965769
• Release Date: September 2004
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 214 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"