Burning Lights

Burning LightsThis 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. 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

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.

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 Burning Lights, an allusion to the festive candles that in their childhood had lit up the holidays of the Jewish year.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Schocken Books Inc
Published: 03/12/1988
ISBN: 9780805208634
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.79lbs
Size: 8.72h x 6.26w x 0.71d