Hannah Levy masterminds her family's escape, despite her radical husband's objections, from czarist Russia after the Kishinev pogroms; elder daughter Sarah becomes a union organizer and a socialist while the younger Ruby rises to the top of the fashion design world; their friend Rachel abandons her ultra-Orthodox background to go to work for the Jewish Daily Forward. Through their lives, loves, and convictions, Meredith Tax draws the reader irresistibly into the explosive events that shaped women's possibilities in the early twentieth century. An absorbing, epic novel, "Rivington Street" is also suitable for use as a classroom text.

    As they unlock the past, the women remember the things that tie them together.

    Warm, often humorous, thoughtful true-to-life socio-political vignettes by the late journalist and barrio-laureate.

    But Grandma's no-nonsense memories are far different from Grandpa's tall tales. This classic story, which reveals the immigrant experience with wit and warmth, won the Sydney Taylor Book Award when it was originally published with Linda Heller's own illustrations. Now, on its twenty-fifth anniversary, The Castle on Hester Street is given new life with Boris Kulikov's vibrant paintings.

    Follows the adventures of Annie as she escapes from the orphanage, finds her dog Sandy, and is finally adopted by the richest man in the world.

    Reprint.

    As an account of growing up female, it is a fit companion piece to Mary McCarthy's classic Memoirs of a Catholic Girlhood.--Le Anne Schreiber, The New York Times.

    It is based on the author's experience as head of the catering company "Glorious Food".