Horodno Burning by Michael Freed-Thall New Year He casts his assistant's uncle—fresh

He casts his assistant's uncle—fresh off the boat from the old country—in the role and proceeds to fleece the faithful with seven shows a week plus matinees on Shabbos and Sundays and redemption on an installment plan

and Elena Kagan

and chocolate rugelach are pulled out of the ovens several times an hour for waiting crowds

Yiddish-speaking Jewish immigrants brought a rich heritage of musical expression to the United States

" Bryks portrays inter-war life in his shtetl Skarżysko-Kamienna

Horodno Burning by Michael Freed-Thall New Year He casts his assistant's uncle—freshIn the Russian Empire's Pale of Settlement, Esther Leving, a brilliant young bibliophile, chafes at male dominance, religious dogma, and antisemitism. Bernard Garfinkle, a religious Jew and the son of a vodka distiller, hides a shameful secret in a culture that worships books, he can't read. Despite their differences, they fall in love. Esther teaches Bernard to read and he in turn builds her a bookshop. They start a family, but when ferocious pogroms