Rachel Bella Calof

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Jewish Historical Society of the Upper Midwest, 4330 S. Cedar Lake Road, Minneapolis, MN 55416. http://www.jhsum.org/asp_pages/index.asp 1949

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Rachel Bella Calof is the author of MY STORY, an autobiographical account to her marriage to Abraham Calof and their efforts to homestead and raise a family on the plains of North Dakota at the turn of the century. Despite desperate hardships, the Calof's raised nine children, and Rachel was a driving force in the establishment of the regional school district. After 23 years outside Devil's Lake, the Calofs moved to St. Paul in 1917. Rachel begin her autobiography in 1936, which she wrote in longhand. The manuscript was "discovered" in the American Jewish Archives in the early 1990s, and published in 1995 as RACHEL CALOF'S STORY.

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United States
Minnesota
Ramsey
St. Paul

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