The vast saga of Jewish emigration over the past century is etched in stunning detail by historian Ronald Sanders in this dramatic narrative. Beginning with the Russian pogroms in 1881, this harrowing history describes the massive exodus of Jews from Russia and Eastern Europe that culminated in new Jewish population centers in America and Palestine. Drawing on archival materials, diaries, memoirs, interviews and official reports Sanders vividly portrays one of the most gripping stories of flight and resettlement of our times.