Gifts to Treasure

Softcover 5.5" x 8.5" 220 Pages Written by: Tehilla Greenberger Illustrated by: Eli Toron Published by: Hachai A Fun-to-Read Book While most Eastern European Jews fled the pogroms of Russia and settled in large cities, some brave souls did try to take advantage of The Homestead Act and helped settle the American midwest. Gifts to Treasure is the tale of the Rabinovich children who join their Papa in America after four long years apart. Twelve-year-old Raizel, eleven-year-old Moshele, and curious nine-year-old Chaya have never been anywhere but the crowded Russian shtetl.  How strange it is for them to see so much open space on the flat North Dakota prairie!  How odd it is to live in a soddie, a home built out of the hard dry bricks of earth cut from the earth! Each child has brought a gift from their grandparents back in Europe… a gift to remind them that living as a Jew is the most precious treasure no matter where they are.  Only Chaya has trouble figuring out what her gift