The Kahans from Baku: A Family Saga

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The Kahans from Baku is the saga of a Russian Jewish family. Their story provides an insight into the history of Jews in the Imperial Russian economy, especially in the oil industry. The entrepreneur and family patriarch, Chaim Kahan, was a pious and enlightened man and a Zionist. His children followed in his footsteps in business as well as in politics, philanthropy, and love of books. The book takes us through their forced migration in times of war, revolution, and the twentieth century’s totalitarian regimes, telling the story of fortune and misfortune of one cohesive family over four generations through Russia, Germany, Denmark, and France, and finally on to Palestine and the United States of America. Cover Title Contents Acknowledgements Preface In Memoriam Elijahu (Eli) Rosenberg Translator’s Foreword Jacob Kahan. Imprisoned. Berlin Chaim Kahan. From Orlya to Brest-Litovsk Life under War Conditions. Berlin On the Move. Vilna, Warsaw, Kharkov, Saratov … Citizenship and the World of Education—Berlin, Bonn, Frankfurt, Marburg, Antwerp To Baku Zina and the Oilfields. Baku Aron and the Black Gold. Baku Summer Resorts during the War: Bad Harzburg, Bad Neuenahr, Bad Polzin Economic Management in Times of War and Revolution. Petrograd Across the Front Line—Berlin, Warsaw, Baku, Moscow, Vilna, Kharkov, Kiev Expulsion from Russia. Baku, Kharkov, Yekaterinoslav, Moscow Fresh Start in the West. Caucasian Oil Company. Copenhagen, Berlin, London, Hamburg, Wilhelmshaven Family in Exile. Berlin Nitag. Berlin Devotion to Books. Petrograd, Vilna, Berlin 36 Schlüterstrasse. Expulsion from Paradise. Berlin The Mavericks between the Wars—European Corporate Networks: Berlin, Hamburg, Copenhagen, London, Riga, Paris, Amsterdam The Third Expulsion. Paris, Lisbon Tel Aviv Sanctuaries. The Family Is Alive. New York, Tel Aviv, Ma’agan Michael Appendix Notes Index