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In this memoir, the author casts a wry and self-deprecating look back on her childhood, with anecdotes about the chance events and comic ironies that make up a life. Rifke (Rosalie Wise Sharp) grew up in North Toronto, which felt to her like a foreign place because there were no other Jewish families there in the late 1930s. Yiddish was spoken in her household, and the food, dress, and customs of Ozarow--the Polish "shtetl" (small Jewish town) from which her parents emigrated--were all maintained. Rifke's peers took lessons in tap dancing, ice skating, the piano, and the flute--activ Print version record Includes bibliographical references and index

Author

Sharp, Rosalie Wise

Publisher

Essays on Canadian Writing Press

Published

2007

Language

EN

ISBN

9781554907779

Subjects

Memoir, History, Biography