When the terrible Catsacks destroy their village, the Mousekewitz family is forced to leave their home in Russia for a new life in America.

Instead of compartmentalizing American experience, the technologies of mass culture make it possible for anyone, regardless of race, ethnicity, or gender to share collective memories—to assimilate as personal experience historical events through which they themselves did not live. That's the provocative argument of this book, which examines the formation and potential of privately felt public memories. Alison Landsberg argues that mass cultural forms such as cinema and television in fact contain the still-unrealized potential for a progressive politics based on empathy for the historical experiences of others. The result is a new form of public cultural memory—"prosthetic" memory—that awakens the potential in American society for increased social responsibility and political alliances that transcend the essentialism and ethnic particularism of contemporary identity politics.

Bibliography of novels based on films. Not many books like this.

Reunited with his family in New York City, a young Russian immigrant mouse recounts his arrival in America aboard a bottle and his adventures with fellow immigrants from many different countries.

Young Fievel Mousekewitz and his friends must figure out a way to stop the attacks of a dreaded band of cats known as The Mott Street Maulers.

Fievel Mousekewitz is separated from his family on their journey to America. His search for them leads him through the streets of New York City and into danger and adventure.