Jewish Experiences across the Americas: Local Histories through Global Lenses by Katalin Franciska Rac and Lenny A. Ureña Valerio textbook and friendships into the precarious

and friendships into the precarious balance of Olive and Griff’s once stable home

the slow decline of Yiddish culture in Europe and Russia

mashber means crisis)

His tireless campaigning for the project—including a marathon fundraising concert tour across America—ultimately saved nearly a thousand Jews from the approaching Holocaust

where ancestral clues begin to reveal a lineage both haunted and shaped by desire

Jewish Experiences across the Americas: Local Histories through Global Lenses by Katalin Franciska Rac and Lenny A. Ureña Valerio textbook and friendships into the precariousThis volume explores the local specificities and global forces that shaped Jewish experiences in the Americas across five centuries, illuminating the culturally, religiously, and politically diverse lives of Jewish minorities in the Western Hemisphere.