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Rifka Channah Lisha Bat Hillel Ha-Cohen,
Bat Mitzvah, October 2007
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Hillel Ben Mihael Ha-Cohen, Rebecca's father, Bar Mitzvah, October 1959.
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Two Centuries of the Family Shumiatcher
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The Russian village where the Shumiatcher family lived 200 years ago. The artist was Rebecca's great-great grand-uncle.
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Rebecca's great-great-grandfather, a Jewish scholar in Czarist Russia
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Rebecca's great-great-grandmother in Russia; she gave birth to 10 children
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Rebecca's great-grandfather and great-grandmother in Russia
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Coming to America: Riga, Latvia 1923
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Rebecca's father learns Hebrew from his 80 year-old grandfather, who spoke no English.
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Rebecca's father recites the Hebrew bedtime prayers he would later teach to her.
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Bar Mitzvah preparations, 1959
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Coming to America: San Francisco, 1996
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Four months after leaving China, Rebecca becomes a daughter of Israel. At the San Francisco Mikveh, the Ritual Bath, April 1997
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Bat Mitzvah preparations, 2006
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