Sentences with phrase «russian immigrant family»

Born to a Russian immigrant family living in Brooklyn on October 27, 1908, Krasner decided early on to pursue a career in the arts.

Jupiter Jones (Mila Kunis) and her Russian immigrant family struggle to make ends meet cleaning houses.

Losing her father before ever being born, Jupiter grows up spending her days scrubbing toilets in upscale Chicago suburbs, and her nights crammed into a house with her big Russian immigrant family.

Not exact matches

Perhaps McKenna's particular concern for the immigrant also stems from the fact that his own father moved to Australia from Ireland and his mother's family were Russian Jews.

Rabbi Isaac Unterman adopted a «permissive stance» with regard to the conversion of spouses of Russian immigrants to Israel, arguing that if there is «danger that the Jewish members of such families may be lost to Judaism... regulations against accepting insincere converts may be suspended.»

The absolute reliability in terms of family, such men are the dream guys for Russian women; more so for those Russian women who are already living in the US either as second generation immigrants or as working professionals.

For example, in our Book Club Plus work in third grades, this played out in an author study of Patricia Polacco, a prolific Michigan author who through her autobiographical fiction shares family stories of her Russian immigrant and her Michigan farmer ancestors.

«From the Margins» juxtaposes his paintings with those of a contemporary, painter Lee Krasner (1908 - 1984), who was from a Russian Jewish immigrant family in Brooklyn and experienced a similar professional reception.

For 20 years, against the better judgment of his Russian - Jewish immigrant family, Louis led a quiet life as a Cubist painter.

He first found his vocation in high school, in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania where his Russian immigrant parents had moved the family from his birthplace, Brooklyn.

Robert Scull was born in New York City to Russian - Jewish immigrant parents who had anglicized their family name from Sokolnikoff.

ROBERT NATKIN, born in 1930 in Chicago, grew up in an extended Russian - Jewish immigrant family.

Born Adolph Frederick Reinhardt in Buffalo, New York, to a family of Russian / German immigrants, he became interested in painting and illustration while in high school.

[jounal] Remennick, L. / 2009 / Exploring intercultural relationships: a study of Russian immigrants married to native Israelis / Journal of Comparative Family Studies 40 (5): 719 ~ 738