Letters from Rifka
by Karen Hesse
In letters to her cousin, a young Jewish girl chronicles her family's flight from Russia in 1919 and her own experiences when she must be left in Belgium for a while when the others emigrate to America.
Criticism and interpretationReaders (Secondary)Emigration and immigrationFictionJewsLettersAnglais (Langue)Lectures et morceaux choisis (Enseignement secondaire)Émigration et immigrationRomans, nouvellesJuifsLettres (Genre littéraire)