Bessie's pillow

By Linda Bress Silbert

Subjects: Immigrants, Jewish refugees, Fiction, historical, general, Fiction

Description: "May this pillow bring you peace. So reads the pillow entrusted, in 1906, to 18-year-old Boshka Markman as she prepares to board a train in Vilna, Lithuania. One of hundreds of thousands of Jewish immigrants who will leave Europe to escape persecution, she travels to America alone."--Page 4 of cover.