Rachel Calof's Story

Follow a dramatized story of Rachel Calof, a Jewish picture bride, as she emigrates from Russia to Devil’s Lake, North Dakota in 1894, to marry a man she has never met. For four years, Rachel and her husband lived in a twelve-by-fourteen foot shack with her in-laws, her husband’s brother, wife and children, two dozen chickens, and a cow. She gave birth to nine children, all of whom survived. She chronicled the story of those years when she was 55 and living in St. Paul. Her manuscript, handwritten in Yiddish, was discovered by her children after her death and eventually published as Rachel Calof’s Story: Jewish Homesteader on the Northern Plains.

Cost: $18. Youth Cost: $10.

Register: oregonjcc.org/rachelcalof
Held at Congregation Beth Israel

In partnership with Congregation Beth Israel