"I realized, in my middle years," says Leba Wine, "that I was of the last generation to hear first- hand Jewish Eastern European immigrant history from the lips of those who had made the trip to America. My head was full of tales told to me by my grandmother. I had my mother's diaries full of stories. Best of all, I had the quilt made by my grandmother and great-grandmother, made in the late 1800's in Pennsylvania. The imagery sewn on it would come to represent the stories of hope and...
