The World I Knew (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The World I KnewThe war has come. Or it has come again. It is not going to be the same world any more. Before its aspect is wholly changed, I wish to make some sort of picture of the world I knew, putting in the light and shade as I remember them.I do not propose to write an autobiography. I will not tell anecdotes, at least, for their own sake. I will not write about notable people merely because they are notable. On the other hand it will be difficult, even impossible, to avoid the recollection of my emotion in this place or that, for places have been my chief emotion, the thought of places unseen and the experience of places seen.I was born in Manchester in November 1895, in Red Bank, a steep cobbled street not far from the Victoria Station, in the centre of the city. My family had migrated there a year or two earlier from the small town of Cherkassy on the Dnieper. They arrived at the station without bands or bunting awaiting them, and seemed to have drifted automatically, forlornly, to the Cheetham Hill tangle of streets, where the Jews lived, and live. They had with them their bedding, and my mother had her samovar, that had been her pride in Cherkassy, dominating the brass candlesticks and the silver beakers. The same samovar still gleams lustrously in a dark passage in my house. The family found its way by Cheetham Hill Road to Red Bank, which is quite close, though it may have seemed much further, with the children and the bedding. And there, framed in a doorway up several steep steps, the eyebrows beetled and the beard gloomed of a certain Goller, a townsman my father."Peace be upon you, Reb Feivel!" exclaimed this Goller. "Is it you?"About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.