Gathering Grains of Sand: My Search for Samuel Jacobs

Jeff Kaye

ISBN 13: 9798670158411

Published by Gefen Publishers, Jerusalem / New York, 2020

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Account of how a young Jewish graduate from Glasgow who had immigrated to Israel years ago, sought to track down the family of his great-grandfather, a Kosher butcher inn Glasgow who had immigrated to Scotland from Lithuania during the pre-Great War wave of Jewish emigration from the Russian Empire. Reflections on author's identity come thick and fast. Revelations of both Nazi horrors and the kindness of strangers. Useful guidance for other like-minded descendants. Memories of past Jewish life in Glasgow. Illustrations (would have welcomed more!). Quoted postage for UK 2nd class. Overseas at least £6.60.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Gathering Grains of Sand: My Search for Samuel Jacobs
• Publisher: Gefen Publishers, Jerusalem / New York
• Publication Date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798670158411
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

ALMOST EIGHTY YEARS AFTER Samuel Jacobs died in Glasgow, only two of his original seventeen grandchildren remained, and his life story was at dire risk of being lost to the sands of time. But fate thought differently. When, following the death of his own father, Jeff Kaye stumbled on his great-grandfather Shmuilo, he began to track him down to find out how he got from his birthplace in a farm beside Vievis, Lithuania, to Glasgow, Scotland. Inevitably, the journey forces Kaye to grapple with core questions of Jewish existence, Israel, and the human condition, culminating in an encounter Kaye would have preferred not to share.