Without initially knowing about her aunt and uncle in Crimea, T. took up residence with the Jewish (Hasidic) family of one of the participants in the Bosphorus Forum on her first return trip in 2015. Jan Shapiro, in his early 50s, works as a translator from English, having translated Rudyard Kipling into Russian, among other works. T. meets Orthodox Jews there for the first time. Shapiro’s wife works as a psychoanalyst. The youngest 10-year-old daughter has never been to the West and asked many interested questions about T.’s son — she found it fascinating that he speaks Russian without ever having been to Russia.
