Your Comrade, Avreml Broide: A Worker's Life Story by Ben Gold bilingual ABOUT THE ITEM

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Your Comrade, Avreml Broide: A Worker's Life Story by Ben Gold bilingual ABOUT THE ITEMTranslated by Annie Sommer Kaufman Written in 1944 by Ben Gold, the president of the Furriers Union, this working class, coming of age novel traces the family origin, immigration, and radicalization of an everyman named Avreml Broide. Mirroring Gold's own life, Avreml's story begins entangled in a complex intergenerational social and criminal community in Bessarabia just after the turn of the twentieth century. Personal dramas drive a young Avreml to