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It winds from Zaturya to LA: a song of migration with Michael Shade

  • 03/05/2025
  • 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
  • Zoom

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It winds from Zaturya to LA: a song of migration

When: Wednesday, March 5, 2025, 7:00-8:00pm

Where: Zoom only

The Zaturensky siblings and their cousins moved from Pinsk in the Russian Empire to Peoria in the USA over a period of 25 years, from the early 1880s onwards. With the help of maps, documents, history, and a bit of imagination, we accompany them as they move across the Pale from the shtetl to the town and on to the city. Then, one by one, they cross Europe and the ocean to the United States, and make their way to Illinois. Eventually, several of them get hip to our kindly tip, and take that California Trip. Although we have only managed to find a couple of references to them in the Belarus records, a careful and critical look at US documentation enables us to trace at least some of their movements. For the rest, we have to make do with deduction and inference, which lead us back to the little village in central Belarus where we think they originated.

Presenter: Michael Shade

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