Dukor: A Memoir by Daniel Charney National Jewish Book Award Winner somewhere between utopia and dystopia

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Dukor: A Memoir by Daniel Charney National Jewish Book Award Winner somewhere between utopia and dystopiaThe renowned Yiddish poet and journalist, Daniel Charney, recounts his childhood in the shtetl of Dukor, Belarus, and his early teenage years in Minsk and Vilna. When Daniel was one his father died, and his mother was left to raise her daughter and five sons in poverty. Daniel, her youngest, also suffered since infancy from a chronic illness. Despite this, Daniel and his family flourished, and two of his brothers achieved great eminence. Shmuel