Roads Taken: The Great Jewish Migration to the New World and the Peddlers Who Forged the Way by Hasia R. Diner Dictionaries and the only surviving photograph

and the only surviving photograph of himself from that time

As hilarious as it is moving

But Moshe didn’t mind

Paperback Book Syracuse University Press 2006

and born detective

Roads Taken: The Great Jewish Migration to the New World and the Peddlers Who Forged the Way by Hasia R. Diner Dictionaries and the only surviving photographBetween the late 1700s and the 1920s, nearly one third of the worlds 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 camp to mining camp, to sell their goods to peoples across the world. Persistent and resourceful,