Ebook {Epub PDF} Rachel Calofs Story: Jewish Homesteader on the Northern Plains by Rachel Calof

Rachel Calof's Story Jewish Homesteader On The Northern Plains Calof/Rikoon There are four main parts to this book. The first, and most important, is My Story by Rachel Bella Calof. This is a first person narrative of Rachel's early life in Russia, her travel to the US as a mail-order bride, and her life as a Jewish homesteader in northern North Dakota/5.  · Although this ninety-page memoir was published in , it was written in Yiddish in when Rachel Calof was sixty, and found by a grown daughter around at which point she had it translated. Rachel Bella Kahn came to this country in to meet Abraham Calof, husband-to-be, and moved with him to the Northern Plains, to a homestead in North Dakota where they got married and Cited by: At 18 years old, and without a dowry, Rachel was sent to America as a mail-order-bride for a young man named Abraham Calof. Rachel first landed in New York. From there, she and Abraham journeyed to join his family already living on homesteads in North Dakota. They arrived in Devil's Lake in

RACHEL CALOF'S STORY: JEWISH HOMESTEADER ON THE NORTHERN PLAINS by Rachel Bella Calof [Indiana University Press], $20 Hardcover, $, Paperback. This is no Little House on the Prairie. A Jewish immigrant homesteader in the newly formed state of North Dakota at the turn of the century, Rachel Calof gives us a very different picture of. Rachel Calof's Story: Jewish Homesteader on the Northern Plains Rachel Calof, Author Indiana University Press $25 (0p) ISBN More By and About This Author. When, in , the opportunity arose for an arranged marriage to Abraham Calof in America, Rachel took it, even though she knew not a soul in the U.S., including her own husband-to-be. Rachel met Abraham and his family after she disembarked in New York City.

In , eighteen-year-old Rachel Bella Kahn travelled from Russia to the United States for an arranged marriage to Abraham Calof, an immigrant homesteader in North Dakota. Rachel Calof’s Story combines her memoir of a hard pioneering life on the prairie with scholarly essays that provide historical and cultural background and show her narrative to be both unique and a representative western tale. Retro Review ‘Rachel Calof’s Story: Jewish Homesteader on the Northern Plains’. J, pm. Edit. When Rachel Bella Kahn was a girl growing up in Russia, she certainly never imagined. Rachel Calof's Story Jewish Homesteader On The Northern Plains Calof/Rikoon There are four main parts to this book. The first, and most important, is My Story by Rachel Bella Calof. This is a first person narrative of Rachel's early life in Russia, her travel to the US as a mail-order bride, and her life as a Jewish homesteader in northern North Dakota.