From the author of Jerusalem Maiden, comes a thought-provoking novel
that tells the story of
an American woman — the daughter of Holocaust survivors — who
travels to Russia to teach entrepreneurial skills to Russian business
women. She wonders, though, what awaits her in the country that
persecuted her mother just a generation ago.
- Roads Taken: The Great Jewish Migrations to the New World
and the Peddlers Who Forged the Way, by Hasia R. Diner.
Between the late 1700s and the 1920s, nearly one-third of the world’s Jews immigrated to new
lands. They followed paths paved by intrepid peddlers who preceded them. This book tells the
remarkable story of the Jewish men who bravely traveled forth to sell their goods to people
across the world. These peddlers propelled a mass migration of Jewish families to the U.S.,
Great Britain, South Africa, and Latin America.
- An Unorthodox Match, by Naomi Ragen
A woman who seems to have it all suddenly decides to seek spirituality in the insular, ultraorthodox enclave of Boro Park, Brooklyn. A moving novel of faith, love and acceptance.
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