Discovery to Diaspora is an engaging kin trip which breathes lifestyles into the days of Jews in Lithuania and Latvia. The Jewish roots within the Baltic Sea quarter are rife with dualities. in a single feel, the quarter is a gorgeous coastal quarter with huge sandy seashores and busy ports. but, those related sights have fraught the quarter with struggle and clash. it's right here the place the Graudan family members used to be confirmed. It used to be additionally the location within which German Nazis and Latvian collaborators mass murdered millions of Jews in the course of WWII, together with a few of the Graudans, (the neighborhood inhabitants numbered approximately 7,000 ahead of the warfare and but below 30 Jews remained after the war). Others within the kin, via marriage, and the foresight of early emigration survived. via their person tales we see their descendents enriching the area with their abilities, love, and compassion for all times. With the aid of family tree stories, released works, public files, memoirs, journals, diaries, notes, interviews, and private tales, Keith W Kaye develops a holistic blueprint of Jewish lifestyles and instances of the Graudan relations from the eighteenth to mid 20th century. Steeped in wealthy ancestry and historical past, the private tales enable the reader to go back and forth to the Baltic and adventure earlier lifestyles there in a firsthand approach. A vibrant photograph of Jewish lifestyles in Lithuania and in Latvia evolves because the historical past, politics, and folks of the quarter are explored. Jews of Lithuania and Latvia: The Graudans can be an enormous contribution to present scholarship of Baltic zone Jewry. alongside the way in which, Keith stocks his personal concepts for locating the old and familial evidence, his unforeseen and enlightening encounters, and his fascinating exploration into the depths of his relations history.