World History of a Jewish Family

                            World History of a Jewish Family traces the epic journey of the Zeiber-Zaks clan—from the shtetls of the Pale of Settlement to the battlefields of World War II, from Soviet Russia to Palestine and America. At its heart is the author's father, Solomon "Monya" Zeiber, who vanishes from revolutionary Petrograd and resurfaces with a new name—a metamorphosis born of terror and survival. Through the fates of a Bolshevik revolutionary, a Montessori educator, naval officers, and a philosopher of Jewish mysticism, this saga illuminates revolution, exile, and the struggle for identity. Drawing on archives, letters, and oral testimonies, Yakub Zair-Bek reconstructs a forgotten world with the intimacy of a son and the precision of a historian.