The First of Forty Families: Bringing My Family Tree and Forest to Life by Tess Schwarz

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges. Author has inscribed book for her grandson.

Escaping from the Pogroms in Russia in the early 1900s, Tess Schwarz's great aunt and uncle, Chaya and Myer Pahoff, eventually arrived in Melbourne and settled in North Carlton.

Between 1925 and 1929, they were responsible for bringing forty related families to Melbourne. Tess's parents, David and Chaya Hain (nee Jacobson) were the first family to arrive.

By describing her parents' journey, Tess also honours the Pahoffs and documents the forty connected families. She traces their story from life in the shetels of late nineteenth-century Russia to the Melbourne Jewish community in the twentieth century in Carlton. It is a story rich in detail and told with a strong sense of family and community. (back cover)