For better for worse

A thriving Jewish community lived in Bulgaria for hundreds of years. They were one of the few Jewish groups not annihilated during the Holocaust, despite the fact that they lived in a Fascist country. This book tells the story of one Jewish family, its way of life, its joys and sadness, its achievements, successes and failures, and later its immigration to Israel (called Palestine at that time . This is the story of Rachel Semo Wool, from Europe to Asia, from Bulgaria to the land of Israel, from a Bulgarian village to a moshav (a communal village) in Palestine, from WW2 to the Israeli War of Independence, from the Bulgarian snow to the mud in the Holy Land, from a Slavic language to a Semitic one - Grandma Rachel remembers it all.