Your Comrade, Avreml Broide: A Worker's Life Story by Ben Gold bilingual Kvell-worthy fact: About 75 percent

Kvell-worthy fact: About 75 percent of American Jews give to charity versus 63 percent of Americans as a whole

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Your Comrade, Avreml Broide: A Worker's Life Story by Ben Gold bilingual Kvell-worthy fact: About 75 percentTranslated by Annie Sommer Kaufman Written in 1944 by Ben Gold, the president of the Furriers Union, this working class, coming of age novel traces the family origin, immigration, and radicalization of an everyman named Avreml Broide. Mirroring Gold's own life, Avreml's story begins entangled in a complex intergenerational social and criminal community in Bessarabia just after the turn of the twentieth century. Personal dramas drive a young Avreml to