How to Make a Life: A Novel by Florence Reiss Kraut is a beautifully written historical novel that explores family themes and the challenges of emigration. It starts with the migration of Ida and her daughter, Bessie, from Ukraine to America in 1905. They believe...

Street Corner Dreams by Florence Reiss Kraut follows the story of an immigrant Jewish-American family from their arrival in America before World War I to the early 1940s. After her pregnant sister Esther dies giving birth while sailing across the Atlantic, Golda Daneshev finds herself...