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My Jewish identity and Connection to Race by Wendy Millstine
I am the grandchild of Russian Jewish immigrants. Thanks to my maternal grandfather’s memoir, I know that he survived the violent anti-Jewish pogroms in Ryzhanovka, County of Zvenigorodka, in the State of Kiev, in Ukraine, and eventually escaped to America. I come from a story of first generation immigrant parents. …