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Rifka

She is a young girl who is Russian and Jewish, a fact which has been hard for her family and which has subjected them to much persecution.

Tovah

She is a Russian girl who is intelligent, generous and witty but who has a curved spine and so is considered less marriageable than her sister.

Mama

She is an unsentimental woman with five children who does her best for her family, and works to raise her children in the way that she thinks is best.

Papa

He is a Russian Jew who decides to move his family to America for a better life.

Nathan

He is older than his sister but they get along well and in the United States, he takes a job at a bakery.

Saul

He is very impressed by Rifka when he sees her in the Ellis Island detention center, and they start to...

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