Leaving for America is a tender portrayal of life in a Russian Jewish community in the 1920s, as seen through the eyes of a seven-year-old girl who is leaving with her mother to start a new life in America. With affection and humor, author Roslyn Bresnick-Perry tells the story of saying goodbye to the people she loves—her well-meaning neighbors, her loving aunts, uncles, and grandparents, and her "best and worst friend," her cousin Zisl. Based on the author's own early childhood experience in the shtetl, it is a moving tribute to a community that no longer exists, after being destroyed in the Holocaust. It has a strong message for children of all ages about the importance of family, as well as recognizing, remembering, and honoring our cultural roots.
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The author recalls her early years in a small Jewish town in western Russia and the last days there as she and her mother prepare to join her father in the United States.
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Grade 1-3-- When the author was six months old, her father went to America, where he worked for nearly seven years before he could afford to send for his wife and young daughter. In the simple language of a child, she reminisces about her friendship with her cousin Zisl, who later died in the Holocaust, and describes some events of her last days in the small Russian Jewish town where she was born. Bold, detailed tempera paintings in a primitive style feature family members and household scenes surrounded by borders filled with items relating to the text. Reisberg has added a further sense of realism by incorporating small family photographs into several of her illustrations. This brief story provides a fine, nonthreatening introduction to pre-World War II Jewish life in Eastern Europe. It can also serve in a broader sense as the basis for discussion of family history. --Susan Scheps, Shaker Heights Public Library, OH
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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