A Reform and Conservative Synagogue Serving the Rivertowns
A Reform and Conservative Synagogue Serving the Rivertowns
Up From Orchard Street by Eleanor Widmer
“The story of three generations of the Roth family, who live together in a crowded tenement at 12 Orchard Street on the Lower East Side. … We live through the bittersweet world of these blunt, earthy, feisty people for whom poverty was endemic, illness common, crises frequent, and zest for living intense. Money may have been short, but opinions were not, and their tart tongues and lively humor invest every page. In this riveting story lies the heart of the American immigrant experience: a novel at once wise, funny, poignant, anguishing, exultant-and bursting with love.” – Jewish Book Council
Discussion led by congregant Linda Gerstman
