I recommend this book to anyone who wants to know more about history. As Rifka begins to get better, the rest of her family, with the exception of Saul, are contaminated with the typhus. Rifka is ready to get her papers signed at the doctor in Ellis Island to be able to stay in America.She gets her papers signed and is alloed to stay in America. She meets a boy named Pieter who always tells her jokes and stories. In 1919, Rifka and her parents got on the train to go to Poland on their way to America. IIya and Rifka took a walk around the hospital, and aftrer alittle while Rifka lost Ilya. At the end of the letter, the lady from the HIAS said that Rifka would have to grow hair in order to go to America. Rifka's head begins itching again and in a day the doctors will make a decision about her case. Rifka has to distract two Russian guards so they won't search the train. One of my kids won Letters from Rifka as a prize from the library summer reading program a few years ago and it has been sitting on my book shelf begging to be read. Rifka is free to enter America and be with her family again. There is one part I wouldn't like my younger boys to read, about Rifka and her mother having to strip completely at the border of Poland and be examined by doctors to get in. In Belgium, Rifka eats a lot of food that she has never seen before, like bananas and chocolate, and that would rarely happen here because we see a lot of the food that we can eat. Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. Rifka’s Russian government won’t let her leave the country and move wherever she wants to but in our country you can do that anytime you want. Things continue to get worse. Just because they're mean to each other doesn't mean they can't like each other.I always like good sibling relationships, so that was a disappointment. This is a book that I am supposed to use in my 7th grade curriculum. Her courage, brilliance, determination, and lovingkindness give her the strength to finally enter America, be reunited with her family, and meet the brothers she had never me who had immigrated years before she was born. She thinks the ringworm is back and regrets ever leaving Russia. Saulgot a job and Rifka sat down with mother in the hospital her mother has typus and her father not to mention but her brother to. This was because she had no hair and the American government thought she wouldn’t be able to get a husband and they’d have to support her. The main character in the story. Letters From Rifka Timeline created by hazelgirl131. I enjoyed reading about Rifka and her family and discussing this novel with my students. After being examined, she is sent to a cage holding deetaines. Write. We’d love your help. She tricked the Russian guards. They barely survive, but do make it to Antwerp, where Rifka is detained because of ringworm. The doctor discovered that she had ringworm on her head. Test. 0000019205 00000 n The doctors told her she is cured but she needs to buy a ticket but she doesn't want to go on a ship with poor people where she will have no space. She makes her way to America to seek a new beginning. 32 0 obj << /Linearized 1 /O 34 /H [ 1100 378 ] /L 74514 /E 37397 /N 7 /T 73756 >> endobj xref 32 33 0000000016 00000 n Once Rifka becomes better friends with him, she discovers that he is very smart. When they first get to Poland there is a doctor that is supposed to “look over” them, but he really was looking over the mother in an inappropriate way. 1. In Russia, they kill people when they waste paper. http://us.macmillan.com/lettersfromrifka/KarenHesse, National Jewish Book Award for Children's Literature (1993), Sydney Taylor Book Award for Older Readers (1992), Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award Nominee (1994), IRA Children’s and Young Adult’s Book Award for Older Reader Category (1993), Phoenix Award (Children's Literature Association) (2012), Letters from Rifka - Karen Hesse - 3 stars. preteens who are interested in Jewish and European history and immigration, teachers. Rifka was relieved that she was home and she said thank you for bringing me back home. 0000005407 00000 n The family must stay with relatives in Motziv, Poland until they find out what has happened to Rifka. Her family is forced to make the difficult decision to journey ahead of her, but Rifka must stay with a family in Belgium to be treated by nuns until her ringworm heals. :) Nice little detail, considering the Jewish helpers of the family in the book are described the same way and "Rifka" thinks she could look just like them when she's older. Rifka becomes very lonely and sarts vistiting her mother in the hospital. When the guards finally leave she jumps on the train as it is leaving. This is a short historical fiction novel that discusses what happened around 1918 to the Jewish people in Russia. 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