Letters from Rifka
Subtitle: with related readings
Series: The Glencoe literature library; Glencoe literature library
Publisher: Glencoe/McGraw-Hill
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 103
ISBN-13: 9780078260063
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation; Readers (Secondary); Emigration and immigration; Fiction; Jews; Letters; Anglais (Langue); Lectures et morceaux choisis (Enseignement secondaire); Émigration et immigration; Romans, nouvelles; Juifs; Lettres (Genre littéraire)
Description: 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.
Notes: For use in teaching literature to high school students.
Table of contents: title: Letters from Rifka  -- Karen Hesse -- The; title: New Colossus  -- Emma Lazarus; title: Placing out  -- Pamela Kuck -- A; title: Little bird ; and Untitled  -- Alexander Pushkin; title: Immigrants in their own words  -- Kids Discover -- from The; title: Story of the Trail of Tears -- R. Conrad Stein.