Our Little Histories
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"In an impoverished village in the White Russia, Raizel Shulman needs to find
a way to save her three young sons from being drafted into the Czars army.
Before splitting them up forever, she pens a poem with three short verses. A
different fate awaits the descendants of each, as one branch will immigrate
to America, a second will leave for Palestine, and a third will perish in the
Holocaust. Through it all, the poem accompanies them, a silent, mysterious
token from a place lost in time.
In seven episodes, moving backward through the tumult of the twentieth
and nineteenth centuries, Raziels descendants make fateful choices as they
struggle to reconcile their identities, their dreams, and the constraints of their
time and place. Their stories play out on a reality set in rural Belarus, 1960s
Tel Aviv, a pre-independence kibbutz, 1930s Chicago, pre-war Vilna, turn-
of-the-century Minsk, and finally, in the tiny shtetl of Prepoisk, not as one
overriding narrative, but as a collection of small, intimate histories."
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