Horodno Burning

<p>In the Russian Empire's Pale of Settlement Esther Leving a brilliant young bibliophile chafes at male dominance religious dogma and antisemitism. Bernard Garfinkle a religious Jew and the son of a vodka distiller hides a shameful secret-in a culture that worships books he can't read. Despite their differences they fall in love. Esther teaches Bernard to read and he in turn builds her a bookshop. They start a family but when ferocious pogroms target Russian Jews they must confront violent oppression.</p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(87 87 87 1)>Exploring the turbulent history which led to the great migration when one-and-a-half million Jews emigrated to America between 1881 and 1914 </span><strong style=color: rgba(87 87 87 1)><em>Horodno Burning </em></strong><span style=color: rgba(87 87 87 1)>is a love letter to literature freedom and Jewish survival. </span></p>