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Burning Lights | 
 enlarge | Creators: Bella Chagall, Judith Baskin, Marc Chagall
Publisher: Biblio Press
Category: Book
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Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 462376
Media: Paperback
Pages: 288
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 8.2 x 5.2 x 0.8
ISBN: 0930395263
Dewey Decimal Number: 947.656
EAN: 9780930395261
ASIN: 0930395263
Publication Date: 1996
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Condition: BASICALLY GOOD X LIBRARY COPY WITH REINFORCED COVERS, ECXEPTION BEING BOOKS' PAGES HAVE GOTTEN WET AT BOTTOM EDGE AND HAS LEFT LIGHT STAIN AND WRINKLING OF PAGES AT LOWER MARGIN DOWN;O/W GOOD,CLEAN COPY;TSP
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By Bella Chagall, with 36 b/w illus. by Marc Chagall. Reprint of 1946 memoir by wife of famed artist with a new introduction by Judith R. Baskin, Professor of Women's Studies now at Oregon State University. "A vibrant memoir of Vitebsk before WWII where both Bella and Marc Chagall lived and where female experience is at the center." (from the Intro by Judith Baskin) A must for Jewish museum shops!
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 enchanting child's-eye memoir of Russian Jewish life April 18, 1998
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
With illustrations by her husband Marc, Bella Chagall's memoir comes from the poignant brush strokes of childhood, focusing on Jewish holidays and family life. If you are curious about the life your immigrant forebears left behind, this will satisfy. I highly recommend it.
 Touching April 4, 2001
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
This book was penetrating and witty, giving a portrait of pre-war Vitebsk that makes the reader feel transported back to that time and location. Sweet without being cloying, the memoir bursts from the pages as if Bella were in front of you, holding a conversation with you.
 Primitive and uninspiring, just does not sound authentic September 2, 2003
uladzik (Frankfurt-am-Main/Minsk, Belarus)
1 out of 5 found this review helpful
I am sorry to say that this was such a bad book, I really was expecting something much better. Bella wrote about her childhood in Vitebsk (Belarus) in a fake "children" style, i.e. using language you see in a homework essay of a ten year old. It was supposed to be cute. But it just did not sound right for me. Second, there are almost no country-specific details at all. Bella does not care about Belarusian culture or the fact that it was under Russian occupation at that point. So, over all, the best thing about this book is Marc Chagall's little graphics. They are so nice and so Belarusian and really convey the feeling of nostalgy for Vitebsk, where I've been on a few occasions. It may be very interesting and educational for a Western reader who does not know anything at all about life in Belarus, (then under the Russian empirial rule), but personally I expected much more.
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