How A Socialist Mainstay Found A Democrat Worth Supporting
Grand Choral Synogogue, Petersburg, where I communed with my grandfather's teenage spirit A few years ago I visited Russia for the first time. My grandfather, fleeing a series of pograms in his district, left there when he was a young teen and came to the U.S. When I was in St Petersburg I visited the Grand Choral Synagogue, the biggest in Russia-- built in 1893.