The book that starts in Enlgish and turns to Yiddish: Relive the sometimes tragic, often hilarious adventures of a teenage yeshiva bokher in Imperial Russia, torn between the traditional hopes and dreams of his parents and the brighter allure of the outside world. From his shtetl childhood in Tsarist Russia through his immigration to Canada in 1926, Falk Zolf's heartwarming coming-of-age story truly mirrors the story of the Jewish People as a whole.