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Letters From Rifka is a children's historical novel by Karen Hesse, published by Holt in 1992. It features a Jewish family's emigration from Russia in 1919, to Belgium and ultimately to the U.S., from the perspective of daughter Rifka, based on the Read More..

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Description	Letters From Rifka is a children's historical novel by Karen Hesse, published by Holt in 1992. It features a Jewish family's emigration from Russia in 1919, to Belgium and ultimately to the U.S., from the perspective of daughter Rifka, based on the personal account by Hesse's great-aunt Lucille Avrutin.Karen Hesse, "Author's Note", Letters from Rifka (Puffin Books, 1993; ISBN 0140363912), pp. ix–x.Hesse and Letters won the 2012 Phoenix Award from the Children's Literature Association, recognizing the best children's book published twenty years earlier that did not win a major award. Among contemporary honors it won the 1993 National Jewish Book Award in category Children's Literature.The protagonist's name, Rifka, is the East European Jewish version of Rebecca (Rivká in Modern Israeli Hebrew).
Description	Letters From Rifka is a children's historical novel by Karen Hesse, published by Holt in 1992. It features a Jewish family's emigration from Russia in 1919, to Belgium and ultimately to the U.S., from the perspective of daughter Rifka, based on the personal account by Hesse's great-aunt Lucille Avrutin.Karen Hesse, "Author's Note", Letters from Rifka (Puffin Books, 1993; ISBN 0140363912), pp. ix–x.Hesse and Letters won the 2012 Phoenix Award from the Children's Literature Association, recognizing the best children's book published twenty years earlier that did not win a major award. Among contemporary honors it won the 1993 National Jewish Book Award in category Children's Literature.The protagonist's name, Rifka, is the East European Jewish version of Rebecca (Rivká in Modern Israeli Hebrew).

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Name	Letters from Rifka
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Authors	Karen Hesse
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Genre	Children's historical novel , epistolary novel
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Country	United States
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Pages	148 pp
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Media_type	Print
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Isbn	9780805019643
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Oclc	25205387
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Publisher	Henry Holt & Co. (Macmillan)
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Pub_date	July 15, 1992
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