Rachel Calof's Story: Jewish Homesteader on the Northern Plains Commonwealth Books ISBN10: 1416567682

ISBN10: 1416567682

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Rachel Calof's Story: Jewish Homesteader on the Northern Plains Commonwealth Books ISBN10: 1416567682Calof's [story] has the 'electricity' one occasionally finds in primary sources. It is powerful, shocking, and primitive, with the kind of appeal primary sources often attain without effort. . . . it is a strong addition to the literature of women's experience on the frontier. Lillian Schlissel In 1894, eighteen year old Rachel Bella Kahn travelled from Russia to the United States for an arranged marriage to Abraham Calof, an immigrant homesteader in