The scope of [Brothers] is encompassing, impressive, daunting: 150 years of European Jewish history refracted through the experiences of six generations of one Russian family as it undergoes agonies and vicissitudes (exile, pogrom, holocaust) and—for the surviving remnant—the final triumph of diaspora…. Rubens tells the complex tale with persuasive authority, no small feat given the scale and the intricacy of detail, and may be forgiven her occasional lapses into excessive use of archival material and sometimes burdening narrative movement with plodding prose. (pp. 64-5)

A review of "Brothers," in Publishers Weekly, Vol. 225, No. 4, January 27, 1984, pp. 64-5.