Title: Laish
First published: 2009
Description: A caravan of Jews wanders through Eastern Europe at the end of the nineteenth century on a heartbreaking quest. Spiritual seekers and the elderly, widows and orphans, the sick and the dying, con artists and adventurers, victims of pogroms who have no place else to go, they are all on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land, but the journey is filled with unexpected detours and unanticipated disaster.
Subjects: Fiction, Quests (Expeditions), Migration, Jews, New York Times reviewed, Fiction, general, Migrations
LC classification: PJ5054.A755 L3913 2009