Vignettes: From Russia to America

By Agnes Kuchuk

Agnes Kuchuk (1913-2003) - poet, translator, educator, mother, and Fourth Way Student was born Agnessa (Agnessitchka) Volovitch, in the city of Dnepropetrovsk. Due to the anti- Jewish pogroms of the period preceding the Bolshevik Revolution, the Volovitch family was forced to pack up and leave their home at a moment's notice on many occasions.In these vignettes through the eyes of a child, Agnes recounts compelling moments of her childhood in Russia, of the Cossack pogroms of the Jews, how her father, furrier and inventor was forced at gunpoint to design a flag for the Bolsheviks:"Papa's design - the Hammer and the Sickle on red cloth -became the emblem of the Soviet flag."Naom Volovitch, Agnes' father and a Jew, designed the first Russian flag.Leaving everything behind, her family was glad to escape alive.They journeyed from Russia to her final destination: New York City and freedom. She continues the story of growing up amid this New World, in what was for them, "the land of all opportunities".

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1540843491
• ISBN13: 9781540843494
• Release Date: December 2016
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 166 Pages
• Weight: 0.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 0.4" x 5.5"