Salt Mine Press

Salt Mine Press, a name Leslie Levine Adler and Meryll Levine Page invented for Create Space is the proud publisher of Jewish Luck: A True Story of Friendship, Deception, and Risky Business. Our book recounts the intertwined stories of two women who—in their struggles against the anti-Semitism and patriarchy of the Soviet regime and the rebranded “New” Russia—succeed by creating their own luck. Their sisterhood is kindled when Vera and Alisa grudgingly line up to register for classes at the Institute that produced experts in Marxist-Leninist economics, a field on its way to extinction. For the next three decades, Vera and Alisa fight for their dreams of self-expression and status. To do so they must deprogram their minds of Soviet theory and learn the new language of a free market economy.