by Site Owner | Feb 17, 2012 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Biographies & Memoirs, History, Portland Authors
By Polina Olsen, The History Press, 160 pages A retrospective optimism invariably pervades the memories of Jewish immigrants to the New World. In Portland, as elsewhere, hardships became nostalgia as families strove to establish a mercantile niche, sometimes borrowing...
