The question that arises is whether it is possible to house, clothe, and feed everyone properly without tearing down the social and economic structures of such people as the Rudomins, who earned their privileged life by talent and effort.Īlthough it raises important political. As a child, Hautzig and her family had the bad luck to be living in Poland (now Lithuania) just as WWII was starting up and Germany was invading places left, right, and center. The Endless Steppe: Hautzig, Esther: 9780812463729: : Books Books Teen & Young Adult Buy used: 31.86 FREE delivery Saturday, November 19 Or fastest delivery Thursday, November 17. Behind the engrossing story of Esther Rudomin and her family lies a sense of the tragedy and paradox of political conflicts: the Rudomins live a cultivated and gracious life in Vilna while all over Russia people live under the most difficult conditions. Without any more further gushing, let me now introduce you to the title The Endless Steppe by Esther Hautzig. Although the Rudomins' Judaism is not a major theme of the book, The Endless Steppe also provides glimpses of anti-Semitism and bitter class-consciousness.

It spells out some of the consequences of the NaziSoviet Pact of 1939: the deportation of Polish citizens, the wartime separation of families, and the hardship of labor camps.

The sudden appearance of Russian soldiers in chapter I is as shocking an. The Endless Steppe is, first of all, an excellent history lesson. The Endless Steppe is, first of all, an excellent history lesson. Esther Rudomin Hautzig’s story, told in The Endless Steppe: A Girl in Exile, begins as it ends, in her native Poland. During World War II, when she was eleven years old, the author and her family were arrested in Poland by the Russians as political enemies and exiled to Siberia. Preview of The Endless Steppe: Growing Up in Siberia Summary: The first winner of the Sydney Taylor Awards was Esther Hautzigs The Endless Steppe: Growing Up in Siberia, and 2018 marks the 50th anniversary of this powerful classic.