Unearthing the lost story of his maternal family, the author, a historian by training, discovers the amazing journey his mother's family undertook from Tsarist Russia to America. ** The 1986 animated musical adventure film called "An American Tail" recounts the story of a seven-year-old mouse, Feivel Mousekewitz, whose family leaves Russia and migrates to the United States. They do so with the conviction that "there are...