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  • 04/2011
  • 9781461027751 B004XTITFW
  • 112 pages
  • $13.00
Delin Colon
Author, Illustrator, Translator, Service Provider
Rasputin and the Jews: A Reversal of History
Delin Colon, author

Adult; Lit Crit, Lit Bio, Essay, Film; (Market)

This book is a well-documented account of Rasputin as a healer, equal rights activist and man of God, and why he was so vilified by the aristocracy that their vicious rumors became accepted as history. For nearly a century, Grigory Rasputin, spiritual advisor to Russia's last Tsar and Tsarina, has been unjustly maligned simply because history is written by the politically powerful and not by the common man. A wealth of evidence shows that Rasputin was discredited by a fanatically anti-Semitic Russian society, for advocating equal rights for the severely oppressed Jewish population, as well as for promoting peace in a pro-war era. Testimony by his friends and enemies, from all social strata, provides a picture of a spiritual man who hated bigotry, inequity and violence. The author is the great-great niece of Aron Simanovitch, Rasputin's Jewish secretary. This book was a finalist in 2012 for the following awards: IndieReader Awards; Readers Favorite Awards; and Sharp Writ Awards.
Reviews
Charles Weinblatt for New York Journal of Books

"Mrs. Colón's dissertation is a brief but well-written exposition on a historical figure who was both maligned and misunderstood when it comes to written Jewish and Russian history." 

Diana Brement for JT News

"This book becomes a short course on revolutionary Russian history and gets gold stars as an example of a well-produced self-published book."

Jonathan Kirsch for The Jewish Journal

"Almost every day, I am privileged to hear from authors who call my attention to their newly-published books.  But none of them claimed my attention quite as forcefully as Delin Colón, author of Rasputin and the Jews: A Reversal of History."

L. Clutterham on Amazon

It is rare to find a well documented historical account in which the writer's obvious passion is not a detriment. This book accomplishes that.
A survey of primary and secondary sources about a fascinating geographical area, era, and man, Colon's *Rasputin and the Jews* is accessible reading for the armchair historian while providing citations for further study by scholars. Told in a friendly writing style, the text is entertaining and informative.
Anyone with an interest in Russia, the powers behind the First World War, the political systems of that era, or Rasputin himself should not fail to read this compelling account.

Neil Rubin for The Baltimore Jewish Times

Delin Colón "bashes the popular notion of the infamous Russian mystic Grigori Rasputin as an influential anti-Semitic, power-hungry conniver in the final years of the Russian Romanov dynasty."

Steve Pollak for The Jewish Literary Review

"Colón has put forth the notion that Rasputin's advocacy on behalf of the country's Jews contributed to his demise."

Formats
Paperback Book Details
  • 04/2011
  • 9781461027751 B004XTITFW
  • 112 pages
  • $13.00
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