The Kahans from Baku

<p><em>The Kahans from Baku</em> is the saga of a Russian Jewish family. Their story provides an insight into the history of Jews in the Imperial Russian economy especially in the oil industry. The entrepreneur and family patriarch Chaim Kahan was a pious and enlightened man and a Zionist. His children followed in his footsteps in business as well as in politics philanthropy and love of books. The book takes us through their forced migration in times of war revolution and the twentieth century's totalitarian regimes telling the story of fortune and misfortune of one cohesive family over four generations through Russia Germany Denmark and France and finally on to Palestine and the United States of America.</p>