My Childhood Years: A Memoir by Peretz Hirshbein National Jewish Book Award Winner Tracing the origins of Jewish

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My Childhood Years: A Memoir by Peretz Hirshbein National Jewish Book Award Winner Tracing the origins of JewishTranslated by Leonard Wolf At the end of the nineteenth century, in an unspoiled rural corner of Eastern Europe, the sensitive youngest son of a miller lives in affinity with nature, keeping kinship with the river and trees, the animals and birds alike. While little Peretz admires the physical labor of his father and brothers, who tirelessly grind flour at the mill, he emerges as a star pupil at the local heder. He might amount to something, his proud