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- catalog abstract "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 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. Her narrative is riveting and candid, laced with humor and irony. The memoir, written by Rachel Bella Calof in 1936, recounts aspects of her childhood and teenage years in a Jewish community, (shtetl) in Russia, but focuses largely on her life between 1894 and 1904, when she and her husband carved out a life as homesteaders. She recalls her horror at the hardships of pioneer life, especially the crowding of many family members into the 12 x 14' dirt-floored shanties that were their first dewllings. "Of all the privations I knew as a homesteader," says Calof, "the lack of privacy was the hardest to bear." Money, food, and fuel were scarce, and during bitter winters, three Calof householdsAbraham and Rachel with their growing children, along with his parents and a brother's familywould pool resources and live together (with livestock) in one shanty. - Publisher.".
- catalog contributor b8236312.
- catalog contributor b8236313.
- catalog created "c1995.".
- catalog date "1995".
- catalog date "c1995.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1995.".
- catalog description "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 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. Her narrative is riveting and candid, laced with humor and irony. The memoir, written by Rachel Bella Calof in 1936, recounts aspects of her childhood and teenage years in a Jewish community, (shtetl) in Russia, but focuses largely on her life between 1894 and 1904, when she and her husband carved out a life as homesteaders. She recalls her horror at the hardships of pioneer life, especially the crowding of many family members into the 12 x 14' dirt-floored shanties that were their first dewllings. "Of all the privations I knew as a homesteader," says Calof, "the lack of privacy was the hardest to bear." Money, food, and fuel were scarce, and during bitter winters, three Calof householdsAbraham and Rachel with their growing children, along with his parents and a brother's familywould pool resources and live together (with livestock) in one shanty. - Publisher.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "My story / Rachel Bella Calof -- Epilogue / Jacob Calof -- Jewish farm settlements in America's heartland / J. Sanford Rikoon -- Rachel Bella Calof's life as collective history / Elizabeth Jameson.".
- catalog extent "xiii, 158 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Rachel Calof's story.".
- catalog identifier "0253209862 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "0253329183".
- catalog identifier "0253329426 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Rachel Calof's story.".
- catalog issued "1995".
- catalog issued "c1995.".
- catalog language "eng yid".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Bloomington : Indiana University Press,".
- catalog relation "Rachel Calof's story.".
- catalog spatial "North Dakota".
- catalog subject "978.4/004924/0092 B 20".
- catalog subject "Calof, Rachel (Rachel Bella), 1876-".
- catalog subject "F645.J5 C353 1995".
- catalog subject "Jewish farmers North Dakota Biography.".
- catalog subject "Jewish women North Dakota Biography.".
- catalog subject "Jews North Dakota Biography.".
- catalog tableOfContents "My story / Rachel Bella Calof -- Epilogue / Jacob Calof -- Jewish farm settlements in America's heartland / J. Sanford Rikoon -- Rachel Bella Calof's life as collective history / Elizabeth Jameson.".
- catalog title "Rachel Calof's story : Jewish homesteader on the Northern Plains / J. Sanford Rikoon, volume editor ; [translated from the Yiddish by Jacob Calof and Molly Shaw].".
- catalog type "Biography. fast".
- catalog type "text".