Julia Kuznetsov

Born Yulia Aynbinder, the daughter of Ukrainian Jewish immigrants immigrants to Canada in the last years of the 19th century, Julia endured a youth marred by deprivation and vicious antisemitism to become a manipulative and calculating personality with keen survival instincts. She married an organizer in the Toronto Jewish community named Abram Kuznetsov, and the two moved to the Canadian capital of Ottawa, where Abram became a member of the city council and owner of several local businesses- all with his wife's guidance. After several miscarriages, Julia gave birth to a daughter, Ruth, who was the first member of either her mother or father's family to attend college- where she met her own husband, Levi Moore, who went on to become a politician in Canada's Liberal party. The Kutnetsov-Moore family thrived and became influential under the clear-eyed and subtle influence of their matriarch until the late 1960s, when Julia- a lifelong smoker- was diagnosed...