A Russian emigre prides himself on the way he's molded himself into a real Yankee in the USA, though the world he lives in, New York's Lower East Side in the late 19th century, is almost exclusively populated by other Jewish immigrants. When his wife finally arrives in the New World, however, she has a lot of assimilating to do.
Major developments in the political, social, and religious history of Western Europe from the accession of Diocletian to the feudal transformation. Topics include the conversion of Europe to Christianity, the fall of the Roman Empire, the rise of Islam and the Arabs, the “Dark Ages,” Charlemagne and the Carolingian renaissance, and the Viking and Hungarian invasions.
1896年,yankel bogovnik,一个俄国籍的犹太人,移民到美国纽约市东城。他吸收了美国的生活,学习英语,给自己的名字,杰克,并剃掉胡须。他以12美元/周的工作作为一个裁缝的工作,挣来的钱能带给他妻子的女孩和他的儿子yossele俄国移民。但他已经爱上了另一个女人,一个舞者名叫玛米芬……