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He flipped through the book and told me how, when he was my age, he’d escaped the pogroms — massacres of Jews in the Russian Empire — in Bar, Ukraine, his family stuffed in sacks of potatoes, his infant brother dying in his arms. How they’d come to live in Walla Walla. How his last name — Barer — which is my middle name — forever marked them as being from that place, no matter where they went. And then he closed the book.
Or maybe it wasn’t in Walla Walla at all and we were in Palm Springs, where I often spent Hanukkah with my grandparents, and the book was really the sports page, but the question and the story were the same. Fifty-plus years into my own life, closer in age to my grandfather than I’ve ever been, and I’m still trying to find the answer, returning time and again to the thoughts in that little blue book, which I inherited along with the broken menorah, more than a decade ago when my mother died.
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