jews, russian

"An epic love story and heart-pounding journey across WWI-era Russia, about a brilliant young scientist racing against Einstein to solve one of the greatest mysteries of the universe"--Provided by publisher.

A memoir of the author's childhood in the Bronx during World War II, where his father was an air-raid warden and made fur-lined vests for the Navy, and his mother, a Russian immigrant, became a poker dealer to a cicle of powerful Bronx politicians who dealt in the blackmarket.

Examines the immigration of Russian Jews to America, discussing the reasons they immigrated, where they lived and more.

Traces the life of a twelve-year-old Jewish boy Zev Tsukerman, whose family moved to the United States from Odessa in the Soviet Union. Photographs capture the warmth of Zev's family and the faith that led them to a new life in America.

An account of the ocean voyage and arrival at Ellis Island of twelve-year-old Julius Weinstein who, along with his mother and younger sister, immigrated from Russia in 1922.

Traces the life of the noted painter, from his birth in Russia to his death in France, with an emphasis on his Jewish background.

The Cohen family leaves their native Russia for what they hope with be a better life in the United States, and soon find themselves enduring the poverty of New York and a less than idyllic land in New Jersey.

Explores religious intolerance towards Jewish immigrants in America and includes information on their arrival from Russia and immigrant aid societies, jobs and life in the cities, raising children, and being a part of a community.

Esther and Fanya, twin sisters in a Russian Jewish immigrant family living on New York's Lower East side in the early twentieth century, each find their own path in life from observing the city around them as they grow up.

Mark Budman draws on his own life to recount the fictional story of Alex, who dreams of escaping Stalin's dictatorship to find his American cousin and become a writer in the free world.