דער קערפער פֿון השם"This is the story of a #Russian #Jewish woman who made her home in #Calcutta in the 1930s, and eventually in #Santiniketan, with her #Bengali husband and the family they founded together. It is a #memoir, with a preface and afterword by the #memoirist’s granddaughter #ChandanaDey, who traces the historical background of #Jews of the #RussianEmpire in the 19th and early 20th centuries and describes the kind of social milieu to which her grandmother had to adjust in her adopted country.
#KetakiSarkar was born #KotiaJonas (or Yonas, as the name was used by some branches of the family) to Russian Jewish parents in #Moscow in 1907. She was named “Ketaki” by #RabindranathTagore, and she held on to the name for the rest of her life, like the sari that became her all-time attire."
