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HESSE, KAREN - Letters from Rifka

Title: Letters from Rifka
Description: Henry Holt, 1992. Hardcover. ISBN: 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, twelve 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. G/Fair .

Keywords: 0805019642 Base on a True Story Jewish Children Aleksandr Pushkin's Poetry Typhus Ellis Island Immigrants, Jewish Jews Leaving Russia Alexander Pushkin Jewish Fiction

Price: US$ 8.00 Seller: Bookshop Baltimore
- Book number: 28465

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