Jill Culiner has written a significant and often gripping account of her personal odyssey.
She traverses Jewish history and geography from the towns and shtetls of Romania, through some of the major cities in Europe, to the Canadian cities, towns and
settlements where Jews wandered. In the many places she visits she recounts not only her immediate impressions but often brings in important elements of Jewish history.
If she is not an historian(?) she has introduced a new way of looking at history.

ABRAHAM ARNOLD, Jewish Heritage Centre Newsletter

Culiner has a professional photographer’s eye, and a gifted writer’s ear. In her
wonderfully detailed, descriptive style, she also vividly recreates the many colourful characters she met en route. And with her own fluency in French, Hungarian, Yiddish
in other languages, and her gift for the spoken word, she also captures their style
of conversation. Waiting in Winnipeg’s bus station cafeteria, Culiner overhears the following: “At the next table, a red-faced woman endlessly harangues her companion,
a chain-smoking man: “I toja noda teller. I tolja noda.” Winnipeg’s North End, onetime destination of Jewish immigrants, “a desolate stretch of North Main, paint falls off in chunks from the frames of boarded-up windows and the brickwork looks nibbled.” This personal account of one woman’s attempt to uncover an era in Jewish history is
a masterpiece that’s part travel writing, and part history.

MATT BELLAN Jewish Post, Winnipeg

Culiner is a witty and prophetic writer, investigating those stories not spoken of, and
the stories that have been hidden amidst a cultural landscape for a century. She holds
no punches and takes the wisdom she has accumulated in her life and reflects a mirror towards the past, ultimately opening up a Pandora’s Box of questions. Culiner’s innate
skill as a storyteller, seeker of truth, and photographer of life, has made Finding Home possibly one of the best books written in the last decade. Even if you are not
of Romanian or Jewish heritage, read Finding Home, as it may unlock the key to much
of your own personal history.

KINDAH MARDAM BEY, Lucid Forge

The Jewish Fusgeyers of 100 years ago walked over large areas of Romania But their ultimate aim was to leave the persecution of Europe for freedom in the New World.
This remarkable epic is chronicled by Culiner, writer-historian-photographer. This book
will definitely attract a wide audience, both Jewish and non-Jewish, who will find this hitherto unknown chronicle of Canadian as well as Jewish interest a fascinating tale.

RICK KARDONNE, The Jewish Tribune, 2004