Title: Cursing Columbus
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.
Subjects: History, Conduct of life, Jews, Russian Americans, Immigrants, Family life, Fiction, Fiction, historical, Fiction, family life, New york (state), fiction, New york (n.y.), fiction, Juvenile fiction, Russian Jews