Rifka Takes a Bow
Hardcover – Picture Book, August 1, 2013
Lerner Publishing Group · Hardcover · August 1, 2013
Rifka's parents are actors in the Yiddish Theater in New York, but one day Rifka finds herself center stage in a special role!
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- Who it’s for
- A true childhood story brings the world of New York’s Yiddish theater close.
- Genres
- Theater Stories, Immigration & Moving, Jewish Religious Stories
- Published
- Lerner Publishing Group, August 1, 2013
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Rifka's parents are actors in the Yiddish Theater in New York, but one day Rifka finds herself center stage in a special role! A slice of immigrant life on New York's Second Avenue, this is a unique book about a vanished time and a place – the Yiddish theater in the early 20th century―made real through the telling of the true life story of the 96-year-old author as a little girl.
Theater and Memory
A true childhood story brings the world of New York’s Yiddish theater close.
Come here for
- A child’s-eye glimpse of New York’s Yiddish theater and immigrant life
- The texture of a vanished early-20th-century cultural world
Expect
- A warm, personal lens on immigrant life
- History made vivid through one family’s theater world
Where it sits
| Jewish Religious Stories | 55% |
|---|---|
| Theater Stories | 53% |
| Immigration & Moving | 44% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- 20th-Century U.S.
- Theater Stories
- Jewish Religious Stories
- Authors
- Betty Rosenberg Perlov, Cosei Kawa
- Publisher
- Lerner Publishing Group
- Published
- August 1, 2013
- Format
- Hardcover
- Reading lane
- 20th-Century U.S.