There Was a Fire: Jews, Music and the American Dream by Ben Sidran non-media Goldman always knits hats for

Goldman always knits hats for everyone in the neighborhood

Every year when families gather for the Passover holiday

It is a family history

and of course delicious songs - from earnest and nostalgic to droll and cosmopolitan

There Was a Fire: Jews, Music and the American Dream by Ben Sidran non-media Goldman always knits hats forThe first edition of There Was a Fire is a National Jewish Book Award Finalist This book is about the power of memory, the human need for narrative, and the ability of music to encode and deliver the two. It outlines the role of the Jews who came to America from Eastern Europe during the late 19th and 20th centuries and helped define the spirit of the American Dream: a concern for the average man and a penchant for tikkun olam, healing a shattered