by Xianna Michaels | Oct 5, 2016 | Editorial
A meaningful Yom Kippur to all. May all our prayers for the coming year be answered. In these High Holy Days of contemplation, I am thinking of a poem I wrote in a special moment of connection with G-d. In these High Holy Days of contemplation, I am thinking of a poem...
by Xianna Michaels | Sep 27, 2016 | Editorial
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by Xianna Michaels | Jun 16, 2016 | Books
This heartfelt saga in verse form is about five generations of women’s journeys from Russia’s persecuting pogroms of the 1890s to America during the 2000s, including Ellis Island and New York’s Lower East Side sweatshops. The story is broken up into five parts, one...
by Xianna Michaels | May 11, 2016 | Books
One of the great joys for me in creating my new book, Lily of the Valley—An American Jewish Journey, was doing the artwork. This allowed me to explore my love of history—particularly as it pertains to the gradual changes in everyday life—and the symbolism that Lily...
by Xianna Michaels | Mar 16, 2016 | Books
flower A verse narrative follows the fortunes of a Jewish family through five generations after it immigrates to the United States. In 1892, a Russian Jewish couple suffer a horrifying loss when their baby is murdered by Cossacks in a pogrom. They send their two...
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