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Dear EmmaDear Emma

Dear Emma

Johanna Hurwitz

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In her letters to a Vermont friend, eighth grader Dossi, a Russian, Jewish immigrant living in the Lower East Side of New York City in 1910, shares her thoughts about her new brother-in-law, the diphtheria epidemic, and the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire.

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OL Work ID
OL14903978W

Subjects

FictionImmigrantsLettersJewsRussian AmericansOrphansHistoryImmigrants -- Fiction.Jews -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction.Orphans -- Fiction.Russian Americans -- Fiction.Letters -- Fiction.New York (N.Y.) -- History -- 1898-1951 -- Fiction.Children's fictionJews, fictionNew york (n.y.), fictionOrphans, fictionLetters, fiction

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