Rifka Takes a Bow

Rifka Takes a Bow

Rifka's parents are actors in the Yiddish Theater in New York. She loves to visit them at work, where they magically transform themselves into other people. When she grows up, she wants to be an actor too!Then one day, Rifka accidentally finds herself center stage. What will she make of her unexpected role? A slice of immigrant life on New York’s Second Avenue, Rifka Takes a Bow is a unique book about a vanished time and a place – the Yiddish theater district in the early 20th century―written by the 96-year-old author, Betty Rosenberg Perlov, who grew up in the Yiddish Theater.