The future is often foretold in stories of the past. As families flee the Debaltseve in Eastern Ukraine in 2015, Ken Goodman’s The Smart One: A Grandfather’s Tale takes us back to families fleeing persecution in Eastern Europe at the turn of the Twentieth Century. It is a compelling story of Jewish migration to America, which begins in Smorgon, now in Belarus, a former Soviet Republic, but at the time Smorgon was in Vilnius, a district of Lithuania, and a part of the Russian Empire.
- ISBN: 9781942146100
- Author: Goodman, Ken
- Published: 2015 , Garn Press
- Themes: Culture, Family life, Jewish, migration, Religion, Tradition
- Descriptors: Belarus, Europe, Fiction, Primary (ages 6-9), Realistic Fiction, Russia
- No. of pages: 170