Between Tel Aviv and Moscow : a life of dissent and exile in Mandate Palestine and the Soviet Union / Leah Trachtman-Palchan. Edited by Nir Arielli

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Cover -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Table of contents -- List of plates -- Foreword -- Introduction to the Hebrew Edition -- Part One Childhood Memories -- The Town and Our Relatives' Way of Life -- The Pogroms -- In Kenele, Grandfather's Town -- We Become Refugees -- In Rashkov -- In Kishinev -- Part Two In Palestine -- The First Years in Tel Aviv -- Elementary School -- In Levinsky Street -- The 'Amal' Troop -- My 'Literary' Attempts -- Going Underground -- Exile -- Part Three Forty Years in the Soviet Union -- My Time in Odessa -- The First Period in Moscow -- Michael and His Family -- Adjusting to My New Life -- Studies at Rabfak -- The Great Purges -- The Beginning of the War -- Tomsk -- Work at the Factory -- The Children's Diseases -- Final Days in Tomsk -- After the War -- Moldavia -- Back in Moscow -- Vladikino -- Dima's Ordeal -- The Kindergarten -- Part Four A Visit to Israel -- Dramatis Personae -- Plate.

Leah Trachtman-Palchan was an ordinary woman who lived an extraordinary life. This was a life of migration, dissent, exile and survival. Born in the final years of Tsarist Russia, her family was forced to leave their small town following the repeated pogroms of the Civil War era. A two year voyage followed, bringing them all to British Mandate Palestine in 1921. Here what seems like a typical Jewish story of migration from Eastern Europe in the early twentieth century took an unexpected turn. As a teenager, Leah joined the Communist movement in Palestine - illegal under the British Mandate. She was arrested, imprisoned and eventually deported by the British to the Soviet Union. This memoir is filled with colourful, and sometimes harrowing, sketches of the people who passed through her life during the era of Stalin's Great Purges and the evacuation of factories to Siberia during World War II. Shedding new light on both Mandate Palestine and the Jewish experience in Soviet Moscow, this book reveals the remarkable story of a woman living through some of the most pivotal events of twentieth-century history.