The Harness Maker's Dream - Kotz, Nick
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Follows the story of Ukrainian immigrant Nathan Kallison's journey to the US in search of a brighter future. At the turn of the twentieth century, over two million Jews emigrated from Czarist Russia and Eastern Europe to escape anti-Semitic law. Seventeen-year-old Kallison and his brothers were among those brave enough to pursue a life of freedom by leaving their homeland in 1890. The son of Nathan Kallison's daughter Tibe, author Nick Kotz provides a moving account of his ancestors' search for the American dream.

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Follows the story of Ukrainian immigrant Nathan Kallison's journey to the US in search of a brighter future. At the turn of the twentieth century, over two million Jews emigrated from Czarist Russia and Eastern Europe to escape anti-Semitic law. Seventeen-year-old Kallison and his brothers were among those brave enough to pursue a life of freedom by leaving their homeland in 1890. The son of Nathan Kallison's daughter Tibe, author Nick Kotz provides a moving account of his ancestors' search for the American dream.
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San Antonio-born NICK KOTZ is a renowned author, journalist, and historian whose work has received top honors in his field, including the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting, the Sigma Delta Chi Award for Washington Correspondence, the Raymond Clapper Memorial Award, the National Magazine Award, and the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Award. With subjects ranging from labor unions to the civil rights movement, Kotz's books focus on a broad range of issues in American history, while simultaneously challenging the nation's present. Kotz earned a degree from Dartmouth College, did graduate studies at the London School of Economics, and continued his commitment to education by serving as a distinguished adjunct professor at the American University School of Communications and completing a semester as the Senior Journalist in Residency at Duke University. He now lives with his wife, author Mary Lynn Kotz, on their cattle farm in Broad Run, Virginia.