Your Comrade, Avreml Broide: A Worker's Life Story by Ben Gold bilingual Already a noted journalist writing

Already a noted journalist writing for both English-language and Yiddish newspapers

and Ladino

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and deeply profound

in the 1920s and 1930s

Your Comrade, Avreml Broide: A Worker's Life Story by Ben Gold bilingual Already a noted journalist writingTranslated 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