Lara Bongard / The Girl Who Crossed the River with a Tablecloth fashion visionary insight

visionary insight

The publication of this book is co-funded with the support of the Flemish Government (Department Youth

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Daydreaming is made tangible

Lara Bongard / The Girl Who Crossed the River with a Tablecloth fashion visionary insightLara Bongard inherited a 100 year old Shabbat tablecloth, the only surviving heirloom from the vanished world of her ancestors, with which her great grandfather Mordko Bongard crossed the river of his shtetl in 1911 and never returned. He left his family and community, to escape the pogroms that swept the regions. Lara embarked on an extensive research into the scattered history of her family in the previous Russian Empire (present day Ukraine). She