Lisa Brahin
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Lisa Brahin

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Lisa Brahin is a Jewish genealogist and writer from New Jersey. Inspired as a young girl by Alex Haley’s ROOTS, she spent many summers audio taping the stories of her grandmother’s traumatic childhood during the 1917-1921 anti-Jewish pogroms in Ukraine. Those tapes were the primary source for her historical family saga, TEARS OVER RUSSIA: A Search for Family and the Legacy of Ukraine’s Pogroms (Publisher: Pegasus Books/Distributed By: Simon and Schuster: Published on June 7, 2022). With a lack of previously published sources to turn to, Lisa used her genealogical skills to locate and interview family members and former residents of her grandmother’s shtetl, Stavishche (which was a part of the Russian Empire at the time of her grandmother's birth, and is today located in Ukraine). Curators in four countries assisted her in finding unpublished documents, written in five languages, that would help to validate her grandmother’s tales. Ms. Brahin is a graduate of George Washington University's Columbian College. On Jewishgen.org, the premier website for Jewish genealogy, she is a two-town project coordinator for the international Yizkor Book Project (Holocaust Memorial Book Project). Lisa was named a double town leader for the website’s Ukraine SIG (Special Interest Group) Project, now called Ukraine Research Division (RD). Lisa hopes that TEARS OVER RUSSIA will inspire continued interest in family history research. She also hopes her book will shine a light on a forgotten and underrepresented period of Jewish history – between the years described in FIDDLER ON THE ROOF and SCHINDLER’S LIST – that prefigured the horror that was to come. Lisa’s Authors Guild member profile page: https://go.authorsguild.org/members/364 Literary Agent: Kathryn Willms, The Rights Factory Photo Credit: Diana P. Lang Photography
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    • Tears Over Russia

    • A Search for Family and the Legacy of Ukraine's Pogroms
    • By: Lisa Brahin
    • Narrated by: Eva Kaminsky
    • Length: 9 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 10-01-2023
    • Language: English
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