Read the passage from sugar changed the world
what is the purpose of the heading in this passage?
marc
o to identify the locations of events
o to describe the author's ancestry
o to explain the start of sugar production
o to distinguish who is telling the story
it was a typically hot, dry day in jerusalem. marina and i
were sitting on a sun-warmed stone patio when i learned
my family's sugar story. a cousin of mine was filling in a bit
of our history that had always puzzled me.
my father's family came from ukraine, then part of the
russian empire, where his father, solomon, the grand
rabbi of kiev, was the latest in a long line of rabbis that
stretched back to the 1300s. solomon was a forward-
thinking rabbi who make bridges between the
jewish community and the christians. he knew that
change was coming, and he committed himself to building
what was to become the land of israel. my grandfather
moved his family to tel aviv, where he became one of the
leaders of the jewish community