What Kind of Past

<p>Remarkable records and coincidences help tell and correct the story of a Balkan Sephardic family split between Ottoman Monastir (now Bitola North Macedonia) and New York City. A son witnesses murder seeks refuge at a French-Jewish school in Tunisia emigrates to Canada vanishes and appears in New York. The father a secular leader of a Jewish neighborhood under the Ottomans remains in Macedonia remarries and raises a second family while witnessing the Illinden Uprising the Balkan Wars World War One and finally the destruction of his community during World War Two and the Holocaust. </p>