<I>A Forgotten Land</I> is the story of one Jewish family in the Russian Empire in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, set within the wider context of pogroms, World War I, the Russian Revolution and Civil War. It weaves together personal tragedy and a fascinating but little-known history of the period, as Pearl—the author’s grandmother—finds her comfortable family life shattered first by the early death of her mother and later by the Bolshevik Revolution and all that follows.