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A Life of Her Own by Joan G. Hauser

This moving story of a girl’s quest for independence begins in a shtetl in Russia. After a tragedy, Minna Ruben and her family decide to flee to der goldener medina—the golden land—America—to seek safety, freedom, and success....

Uncle Sol’s Women by Simeon J. Maslin

“Uncle Sol’s Women” opens in Vilnius around the time of the Russo-Japanese War with the murders that motivate Sol’s father to leave the old country with his pregnant wife. The two children born to...

My Guardian Angel by Sylvie Weil

The streets are eerily empty, and everyone in the Jewish community is terrified of Peter the Hermit. His men, the Crusaders, are moving through the town on their way to the Holy Land. They...