To Break the Barrier: A Historical Novel of a Hero's Triumph Over Bigotry and Tyranny [*SIGNED*]

New York: Exposition Press. Very Good in Very Good- dj. (c.1962). First Edition. Hardcover. [a little shelfwear to bottom extremities, light soiling to edges of text block; jacket rubbed and edgeworn, a couple of closed edge-tears to rear panel, minor scrunching at top of spine]. SIGNED and DATED by the author on the ffep, beneath the following generic inscription: "a gift from S.G. / Enterprises, Inc. / Hope you'll enjoy / reading my novel." A multi-generational novel about a family of Polish Jews and their descendants. It begins in 1861 with the Polish rebellion against Russian domination; when the family patriarch is exiled to Siberia, his son escapes to America, where he marries a gentile girl. They attempt to raise their son "with equal exposure to Judaism and Christianity," but a meddling Christian grandmother (mother-in-law of the Jewish son) "takes over, and he is reared with a wholly Christian outlook" -- but even though HE, also, subsequently marries a Christian girl, he still suffers "the scourge of anti-Semitism." Per a contemporary newspaper account, quoted in the jacket blurb, the book "is based on [the author's] own family's experiences" -- which of course is pretty much par for the course for a vanity-press novel. ***This book is among the nearly 150 items offered in ReadInk's new Catalog Number 4, "Booking Passage: Books on the Immigrant Experience." You can access this catalog and its contents in any one of three ways: (1) email us to request a PDF to be emailed to you; (2) view or download the catalog from the link on our website's main page; (3) browse the books individually (including a few that didn't make the cut for the catalog) on our website under these two subject headings: "Immigration: Fiction" and "Immigration: Non-fiction." Signed by Author .