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4 comments about The Year My Whole Country Turned Jewish: A Time Travel Adventure in Medieval Khazaria With the Steppe Kids.

1. For the age 12-16 reader, this is the best novel I've read on time-travel adventure in 9th-10th century Khazaria. The words and imagination from the point of view of a 15-year old girl is comparable in philosophy to the diaries of women and girls facing the destruction of their homeland and their need to find a new homeland. This is an excellent book by an author of 55 published books. I highly recommend all of Anne de Sola Hart's fine novels, particularly her series on the DNA Detectives and her romance/suspense novels listed here. This book is a winner, and from a young girl's point of view as a powerful heroine saving her people. Truly a Joan of Arc of the Volga/Caspian world of medieval time-travel. Wow! Highly recommended. I also highly recommend Anne Hart's novel, The Courage to be Jewish and the Wife of an Arab Sheik, and her novel, New Afghanistan TV Anchorwoman. Truly an international buffet!



2. For the age 12-16 reader, this is the best novel I've read on time-travel adventure in 9th-10th century Khazaria. The words and imagnation from the point of view of a 15-year old girl is comparable in philosophy to the diaries of women and girls facing the destruction of their homeland and their need to find a new homeland. This is an excellent book by an author of 55 published books. I highly recommend all of Anne de Sola Hart's fine novels, particularly her series on the DNA Detectives and her romance/suspense novels listed here. This book is a winner, and from a young girl's point of view as a powerful heroine saving her people. Truly a Joan of Arc of the Volga/Caspian world of medieval time-travel. Wow! Highly recommended. I also highly recommend Anne Hart's novel, The Courage to be Jewish and the Wife of an Arab Sheik, and her novel, New Afghanistan TV Anchorwoman. Truly an international buffet!



3. From Medieval Times to WWII and Beyond Enchanting Pontic Time Travel Adventures That Will Surely Outwit Harry Potter's Magic

   Should there be a class about history for 14-year old boys and 15-year old sisters, Marót, the 13-year-old boy in the latest adventure book, The Year My Whole Country Turned Jewish (now available through 1stBooks Library) would certainly outdo and outwit the legendary Harry Potter.

   Marót, the wonder boy and his sister Chichek have traveled as far away as Medieval times through World War II and back to the present religious conflicts in the Middle East. Author, Anne Hart painstakingly recreates these memorable historical events and offers loads of adventures, excitement and surprises in her most recent book, The Year My Whole Country Turned Jewish: A Time Travel Adventure in Medieval Khazaria with the Steppe Kids.

   It takes place between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea in medieval times when migrations were the day and the first crusade had only been in the planning stage. Hart is an award-winning novelist, textbook author, and playwright of a large musical and artistic family from the Greek Islands; she has written over 55 books and dozens of articles, plays and course books. In The Year My Whole Country Turned Jewish, she presents what seems to be an impossible task, bringing together century-old tales, multicultural stories and awe-inspiring historical accounts of Jewish origin.

   Hart's spectacular journey begins during the 9th and 10th century at the renowned Medieval Khazaria, the only Jewish state that exists outside Israel. Here, she blends actual accounts of the Jewish struggle against Russian pagan empire and the Vikings with a gripping family saga. The story is told from the perspective of an insightful young Marót who rescued his family from tyranny.

   Their journey from Khazaria overflows with memories of the Byzantine Empire and Constantinople which all played significant roles in the history of Judaism. Harts version of the book for young readers, The Day My Whole Country Turned Jewish also is published with illustrations, stories, and poems on the same theme.

   Also see Hart's multicultural female sleuth books, her Armenian detective character (female) Tweechig Haroutunian, her Eygptian/Greek Mizrahi character, in A Private Eye Called Mama Africa... She writes several novels a year as she has done since 1963. This is a spectacular book in the style of Harry Potter with a multicultural nuance. Great book for young teen readers. I also enjoyed Anne Hart's DNA Detectives Series, and her novel, The Courage to be Jewish and the Wife of an Arab Sheik as well as a version and poem of Marot's story in The Day My Whole Country Turned Jewish, which is a poem, a story, and illustrations from Marot's diary. The Year book focuses on Chichek's diary story of time travel. A wonderful read for young teens with the whole family.




4. From Medieval Times to WWII and Beyond Enchanting Pontic Time Travel Adventures That Will Surely Outwit Harry Potter's Magic

   Should there be a class about history for 14-year old boys and 15-year old sisters, Marót, the 13-year-old boy in the latest adventure book, The Year My Whole Country Turned Jewish (now available through 1stBooks Library) would certainly outdo and outwit the legendary Harry Potter.

   Marót, the wonder boy and his sister Chichek have traveled as far away as Medieval times through World War II and back to the present religious conflicts in the Middle East. Author, Anne Hart painstakingly recreates these memorable historical events and offers loads of adventures, excitement and surprises in her most recent book, The Year My Whole Country Turned Jewish: A Time Travel Adventure in Medieval Khazaria with the Steppe Kids.

   It takes place between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea in medieval times when migrations were the day and the first crusade had only been in the planning stage. Hart is an award-winning novelist, textbook author, and playwright of a large musical and artistic family from the Greek Islands; she has written over 55 books and dozens of articles, plays and course books. In The Year My Whole Country Turned Jewish, she presents what seems to be an impossible task, bringing together century-old tales, multicultural stories and awe-inspiring historical accounts of Jewish origin.

   Hart's spectacular journey begins during the 9th and 10th century at the renowned Medieval Khazaria, the only Jewish state that exists outside Israel. Here, she blends actual accounts of the Jewish struggle against Russian pagan empire and the Vikings with a gripping family saga. The story is told from the perspective of an insightful young Marót who rescued his family from tyranny.

   Their journey from Khazaria overflows with memories of the Byzantine Empire and Constantinople which all played significant roles in the history of Judaism. Harts version of the book for young readers, The Day My Whole Country Turned Jewish also is published with illustrations, stories, and poems on the same theme.

   Also see Hart's multicultural female sleuth books, her Armenian detective character (female) Tweechig Haroutunian, her Eygptian/Greek Mizrahi character, in A Private Eye Called Mama Africa, and her other novels listed at www.iuniverse.com or www.1stbooks.com. She writes several novels a year as she has done since 1963. This is a spectacular book in the style of Harry Potter with a multicultural nuance. Great book for young teen readers. I also enjoyed Anne Hart's DNA Detectives Series, and her novel, The Courage to be Jewish and the Wife of an Arab Sheik as well as a version and poem of Marot's story in The Day My Whole Country Turned Jewish, which is a poem, a story, and illustrations from Marot's diary. The Year book focuses on Chichek's diary story of time travel. A wonderful read for young teens with the whole family.

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2 comments about Russia (Pelican).

1. I was assigned to read this book in a Russian History class in college and fell in love with Russia and her people. It is a little out of date now if you are looking for what life is like under the New Russia. But if you want to read what life was in Russia in the 70's and 80's this book is an excellent resource.

   Kaiser is a journalist and gives a journalistic pov of the Russian people and their way of life. He gets past the surface of Cold War rheteric when Russia was closed to most of us in the West ansd simply just an "Evil Empire" of the old guard, and lets us see her people with their hopes, their dreams and their lives.




2. Robert Kaiser's Russia: The Power and the People, is an excellent portrait of a point in time in Russia. The material is dated to the 1970s for the most part, and gives a great view of the Russian people. Kaiser shows how the Russians live, how they work, and how they view themselves. Kaiser shows the Russians to be a people doing their best to live well in what westerners would consider unlivable conditions. Overcrowded living (often several families to an apartment), the overuse of abortion because of a lack of available contraception, a 100% censored media, and irrational governmental system all contribute to how the Russians live.

   Kaiser demonstrates that in Russia ordinarily good people regularly lie, participate in the black market, steal from their employers, sign false statements against people, and create false reports about all sorts of things. The brilliance of Kaiser is that he does this without being judgemental of the Russian people. He shows that they live in a place and time that requires these things as part of their survival.

   Kaiser also shows that the Russians are a people of many contradictions. They are extremely political, but as a result of a 100% controlled media, incredibly ill-informed about the rest of the world. Perhaps the saddest thing for a western reader to learn about the Russians is their extreme paranoia. As Kaiser shows in several examples, the government relies heavily on a network of informants and spies, to keep the populace under control. The result is that the Russian people are unable to trust anyone with even their small talk, lest an off handed comment reach an official with the power to make their life difficult.

   This book is not a Russian history, nor does it encompass the fall of communism. It isn't really even a study of communism in Russia. This book is a picture of Russian life and how it really worked for the people in that time. It's an excellent piece of journalism that I recommend to anyone who wants to learn how Russia actually operated under communism or is curious as to why communism is not a good idea.

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