Heir To The Glimmering World by Cynthia Ozick

Set in the 1930s, this novel follows the journey of a young woman named Rose Meadows, who finds herself entangled with an eccentric family of German-Jewish refugees in the Bronx. As she becomes their live-in assistant, Rose navigates the complexities of her own life while witnessing the family's struggles to adapt to a new world. The story intricately weaves themes of displacement, intellectual pursuit, and the search for identity, all against the backdrop of a changing America on the brink of World War II.