Soul to Soul A Black Russian Jewish Woman's Search for Her Roots [Paperback]

Yelena Khanga tells the compelling story of growing up black in Russia and journeying through cultures to learn about her forebears and meet relatives she had never known. From the days of slavery in the cotton fields of Mississippi to the Moscow of Stalin and Brezhnev, from Jewish New York and Harlem in the twenties to modern-day Los Angeles, Long Island, and Zanzibar,Tells the remarkable story of Ms. Khangas family, shedding light into unfamiliar corners of both the Soviet and American pasts. . . . [An] unusual and fascinating odyssey. . . . However Yelena Khanga reconciles the complex strands of her ancestry in the future, she has, in