Regina Anavy

Larry's Letters Regina Anavy

Larry's Letters, The Personal Correspondence of Larry Schlasinger, documents the personal experiences of a Jewish family in North Dakota in the 1930s and 1940s through the letters they wrote to each other. The story is universal and will appeal to readers interested in family dynamics, Jewish history, American Indian history and World War Two history. It is also a paean to the lost art of letter writing. Noah and Sarah Schlasinger emigrated to the US from Odessa in 1905 to escape the pogroms against the Jews. They settled in Streeter, North Dakota, a town of 600, where they homesteaded and ran a general store. Larry was the youngest of five children. He studied journalism at the University of North Dakota, Grand Forks and enlisted in the Army after graduation. The later letters follow his military career and his work in intelligence before the Allied invasion of Normandy. This third edition contains original material, including two essays and photographs that weren't included in earlier editions. These letters were discovered by the author/editor after her mother's death. They are only a fraction of the family correspondence in the possession of family members. The letters included here have been donated to the Chester Fritz Library at the University of North Dakota, Grand Forks and are available to scholars.