Finesilver's Gold
Littman, Ruth Shalett / Kalechofsky,, Roberta, Ph.D.
Finesilver's Gold is a Jewish adventure like no other, It begins in 1894, when Jacob Finesilver, age 19, escapes conscription into the Czar's army by walking from his shtetl, Khotin, in the Ukraine to the Yukon. News of the Klondike goldrush has reached into the Ukraine, and has inflamed Jacob s imagination, as it did thousands of others from the United States and Canada. Finesilver's plan is to cross the frozen Bering Sea during the winter, w...