Roads Taken The Great Jewish Migrations to the New World and the Peddlers Who Forged the Way

Roads Taken The Great Jewish Migrations to the New World and the Peddlers Who Forged the WayFinalist for the 2015 National Jewish Book Award Celebrate 350 Award for American Jewish Studies Between the late 1700s and the 1920s, nearly one third of the world's Jews emigrated to new lands. Crossing borders and often oceans, they followed paths paved by intrepid peddlers who preceded them. This book is the first to tell the remarkable story of the Jewish men who put packs on their backs and traveled forth, house to house, farm to farm, mining