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City of Slaughter
by
Cynthia Drew (Goodreads Author)
Fourteen-year-old Carsie Akselrod and her younger sister, Lilia, flee the Russian pogroms to live with relatives on New York's teeming, dangerous Lower East Side. Like many Jewish immigrant Americans in the early 1900s, the girls go to work in sweatshops, eventually taking jobs at the ill-fated Triangle Waist Company, scene of the infamous 1911 industrial fire that claimed...more
Paperback, 312 pages
Published
March 10th 2012
by Daniel and Daniel Publishers
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It is easy to forget, when surrounded by modern conveniences, what many of our ancestors went through in order to build a new life in North America. City of Slaughter by Cynthia Drew sheds light on the harsh realities of immigrant life in New York City in the early twentieth century. The story opens with a horrific pogrom in a Jewish village in Russia in what was known as "the Pale," the region where the Jews were compelled to live. Thirteen year old Carsie Axelrod witnesses her parents brutally...more
I'm not really sure how I feel about this novel. I enjoy reading historical fiction, and especially books about Jewish American history, and when I read the synopsis and the reviews about this book, I couldn't wait to read it. The plot intrigued me and the beginning of the book which takes place in Russia during the time of the pogroms against the Jews hooked me in with the realistic descriptions and at times, the horrifying depictions of violence and destruction. When the progression of the plo...more
This book made my husband and I think of our own families: The majority of my husband's relatives worked in the garment industry. We never thought about what life was like for them and it was never discussed by his parents or grandparents.
WE both felt the book was extraordinary. It provided a whole new perspective on how the Jewish immigrants suffered in Russia and what they suffered to arrive to the U.S. and then the unbelievable suffering they went through once they arrived to the lower east...more
WE both felt the book was extraordinary. It provided a whole new perspective on how the Jewish immigrants suffered in Russia and what they suffered to arrive to the U.S. and then the unbelievable suffering they went through once they arrived to the lower east...more
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A good solid 3.5 stars for me.
At first I didn't like this book. I found the writing different than anything that I had encountered. I mean this book is supposed to be a saga. I was hoping to really be invested into the characters. In stead I got a lot of short sentences and things that happened without any pre-story to accompany it. I had put the book down for a week but then felt myself drawn back to it. I found that through the book (with it's many characters and seemingly random events) I fou...more
At first I didn't like this book. I found the writing different than anything that I had encountered. I mean this book is supposed to be a saga. I was hoping to really be invested into the characters. In stead I got a lot of short sentences and things that happened without any pre-story to accompany it. I had put the book down for a week but then felt myself drawn back to it. I found that through the book (with it's many characters and seemingly random events) I fou...more
This is a phenomenal book! It is a captivating book following two young girls from the pograms in Russia to the tenements in New York City. Their courage and determination was astounding and believable. I had a hard time putting the book down.
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I like historical fiction and this book really intertwined history of the Russian pogroms and life on the lower east side in the early 1900's with the fictional characters.
I love historic fiction. It held my attention imediately. A story of survival from the Ukraine to New York City.
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