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翻訳と辞書　辞書検索 [ 開発暫定版 ] スポンサード リンク Letters from Rifka ： ウィキペディア英語版 Letters from Rifka ''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). == Plot == During the Russian Civil War of 1919, Rifka and her family must flee Russia because the Russian army is after her brothers. She tells her story in a series of letters to a cousin who remains behind in Russia, written in the blank spaces of an edition of Pushkin's poetry. Rifka, her parents, and her brothers Nathan and Saul, escape Russia, hoping to join the three older sons who have been living in America for years. Along the way, they face cruel officials, typhus, hunger, theft, ringworm, and a separation that threatens to keep Rifka from ever joining her family. She is constantly reminded she must be clever and brave, but her true salvation can only come when she learns compassion. When she is free to leave and on the boat to America, Rifka falls in love with Pieter, a sailor. When a violent storm kills him, Rifka is depressed and ready to go home. While she is stranded at Ellis Island, she finds she has a talent for nursing and for literature. On Ellis island Rifka meets a new friend he first does not talk to her. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Letters from Rifka」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク 翻訳と辞書 : 翻訳のためのインターネットリソース Copyright(C) kotoba.ne.jp 1997-2016. All Rights Reserved.