Letters from Rifka
by Hesse, Karen
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good in Fair dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0805019642
- ISBN 13
- 9780805019643
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About This Item
Henry Holt. Good in Fair dust jacket. 1992. Hardcover. 0805019642 . 148 pages. Clean text, endpapers glued to the cover, library cards removed, several pages creased. Based on a true story. Fleeing Russia with her family in 1919, 12 year old Rikva contacts ringworm, is cured in Antwerp, and detained at Ellis Island because of her baldness. Aleksandr Pushkin's poetry book of poetry, used by Rivka to record her experiences, this young girl has a courageous attitude and spirit ; Ex-Library .
Synopsis
Letters From Rifka (original version 1992) is a historical young-adult novel by Karen Hesse. It was a recipient of a National Jewish Book Award and several other honours. In the "Author's Note" to the novel, Hesse claims that it was based on the personal account of her great-aunt Lucille Avrutin's immigration to America.
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- Seller
- Bookshop Baltimore (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 28465
- Title
- Letters from Rifka
- Author
- Hesse, Karen
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good in Fair dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0805019642
- ISBN 13
- 9780805019643
- Publisher
- Henry Holt
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1992
- Keywords
- 0805019642, Base On A True Story, Jewish Children, Aleksandr Pushkin's Poetry, Typhus, Ellis Island, Immigrants, Jewish, Jews Leaving Russia, Alexander Pushkin
- Bookseller catalogs
- Jewish Fiction;
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