Daniel speaks with Sandy Rikoon, a sociologist at the University of Missouri about Rachel Caloff (KAY-loff), a young woman who in the 1890's left her native Russia for the United States marry a man she'd never met. Together, Caloff and her new husband moved to North Dakota where they became part of a small Jewish farming community. Rikoon found a manuscript of Caloff's memoirs in an historical archive and worked with the family to get it published. It's called 'The Rachel Caloff Story' and is published by Indiana University press.
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