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Lisa Brahin is a Jewish genealogist, researcher 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: 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 bi ...more

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