Burning Lights
Author: Chagall, Bella
ISBN: 9780805208634
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE US
Year first published: 12 Mar 1988
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback / softback
This charming memoir by Bella Chagall recalls her childhood in Vitebsk, the Russian-Jewish market town where she and her husband, Marc Chagall, grew up. Her warm reminiscences of Jewish family life in pre-Revolutionary Russia are illustrated with thirty-six pen-and-ink drawings by Marc Chagall. br>br>Bella Chagall, a gifted author and actress, was the youngest of seven children born to a well-to-do Hasidic family. While living in France in the 1930s, the Chagalls conceived the idea of commemorating their native town with a book. The title they chose was i>Burning Lights/i>, an allusion to the festive candles that in their childhood had lit up the holidays of the Jewish year.
ISBN: 9780805208634
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE US
Year first published: 12 Mar 1988
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback / softback
This charming memoir by Bella Chagall recalls her childhood in Vitebsk, the Russian-Jewish market town where she and her husband, Marc Chagall, grew up. Her warm reminiscences of Jewish family life in pre-Revolutionary Russia are illustrated with thirty-six pen-and-ink drawings by Marc Chagall. br>br>Bella Chagall, a gifted author and actress, was the youngest of seven children born to a well-to-do Hasidic family. While living in France in the 1930s, the Chagalls conceived the idea of commemorating their native town with a book. The title they chose was i>Burning Lights/i>, an allusion to the festive candles that in their childhood had lit up the holidays of the Jewish year.
