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Pruitt Branch Library will close beginning July 1 for maintenance. Hold items will be rerouted to the Main Library. We anticipate reopening in early fall.
Joseph Katz, writing under the pen name of Alexander Godin, immigrated to the United States from the Ukraine with his family in l922. “My Dead Brother Comes to America” was published in 1934 and included as part of The Best Short Stories of the Century. Written at a time of large European immigration to the United States, the story highlights the arrival of immigrants to America through Ellis Island.