Cursing Columbus
By: by Eve Tal.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Cinco Puntos Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: El Paso, Tex
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9781933693590
Subjects: Immigrants -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction; Conduct of life -- Fiction; Jews -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction; Ukrainian Americans -- Fiction; Family life -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction; New York (N.Y.) -- History -- 1898-1951 -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction
Description: In 1907, fourteen-year-old Raizel, who has lived in New York City for three years, and her brother Lemmel, newly-arrived, respond very differently to the challenges of living as Ukrainian Jews in the Lower East Side as Raizel works toward fitting in and getting ahead, while Lemmel joins a gang and lives on the streets.