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The Incorruptibles: A True Story of Kingpins, Crime Busters, and the Birth of the American Underworld
Nonfiction In the Shadow of Race: Jews, Latinos, and Immigrant Politics in the United States Victoria Hattam
Nonfiction Pasta, Fried Rice and Matzoh Balls: Immigrant Cooking in America Loretta Frances Ichord; Jan Davey Ellis, illus.
Nonfiction At The Edge of a Dream: The Story of Jewish Immigrants on New York’s Lower East Side: 1880 – 1920 Lawrence J. Epstein
Nonfiction Aliya: Three Generations of American-Jewish Immigration to Israel Liel Leibovitz
Nonfiction My Future is in America: Autobiographies of Eastern European Jewish Immigrants Jocelyn Cohen and Daniel Soyer, ed. and trans.
Nonfiction Jacob’s Cane: A Jewish Family’s Journey from the Four Lands of Lithuania to the Ports of London and Baltimore Elisa New
Essay Leaving Mother Moldova Marina Blitshteyn is the author of the new poetry chapbook Russian for Lovers. Earlier this week she wrote about she wrote about the origin of Russian for… Marina Blitshteyn April 8, 2011