Title: Up from Orchard Street
Description: A story of a Russian-Jewish immigrant family living on New York's Lower East Side follows the lives of three generations of Roths, from Manya, the long-widowed matriarch and heart of the family, to her granddaughter Elka.
Subjects: Jewish women, Judentum, Poor families, Grandparent and child, Jewish cooking, Judentum <Motiv>, Women immigrants, Grandmothers, Fiction, Jewish fiction, Jewish families, Roman, Women cooks, Tenement houses, Jewish Cookery, Widows
Places: Lower East Side (New York, N.Y.)