Plumes: Ostrich Feathers, Jews, and a Lost World of Global Commerce by Sarah Abrevaya Stein Yiddish Language Froyim (Ephraim) Kaganovski (1893-1958) had

Froyim (Ephraim) Kaganovski (1893-1958) had his first story published when he was 16 years old

From one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century

these papers reveal a woman whose life brimmed with creativity

victims and survivors of Ukrainian ghettos

Plumes: Ostrich Feathers, Jews, and a Lost World of Global Commerce by Sarah Abrevaya Stein Yiddish Language Froyim (Ephraim) Kaganovski (1893-1958) hadAn unexpected and fascinating examination of the vanished Jewish trade in ostrich feathers, which thrived on three continentsThe thirst for exotic ornament among fashionable women in the metropoles of Europe and America prompted a bustling global trade in ostrich feathers that flourished from the 1880s until the First World War. When feathers fell out of fashion with consumers, the result was an economic catastrophe for many, a worldwide feather bust.