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Call Me Ruth follows a 16‑year‑old daughter of a Russian immigrant family who arrives in Manhattan in 1908. Raised within a tight-knit Jewish community, she faces the dilemma of balancing devotion to her mother with growing dissonance toward her mother’s increasingly radical involvement in the labor movement. The story examines the turbulence of identity, family loyalty, and the fervor of early twentieth‑century social change in New York City.
First publish date: 1982
Genre: Children's Fiction/Early Readers
Authors: Marilyn Sachs
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