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Rifke

An Improbable Life

ISBN-13: 9781554907779

Author(s): Rosalie Wise Sharp

Subjects: BM, CT, DNC

Publisher: Ecw Press

Publisher Imprint: Ecw Press Digital

Publication Date: 01-04-2007

Format: Ebook

Availability: In stock

£7.99
Rifke

About the book

Rifke (Rosalie Wise Sharp) grew up in North Toronto, which felt to her like a foreign place because there were no other Jewish families there in the late 1930s. Yiddish was spoken in her household, and the food, dress, and customs of Ozarow the Polish shtetl (small Jewish town) from which her parents emigrated were all maintained. Rifke s peers took lessons in tap-dancing, ice-skating, the piano, and the flute; activities that didn t translate into the Yiddish vocabulary at the Wises, where only hard work, no nonsense, and book-learning were