Ruth Shilsky Research Paper

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Ruth was born as Rachel Shilsky and fled Poland with her parents as a child, when Jews were being killed by both Russians and Germans. When Rabbi Shilsky wants to scare his family in America he threatens to send them back to Europe where the Jews are subject to constant terrorism. The young Ruth, however, finds racial hatred in America as well. When her family moves to Suffolk, Virginia, she is made fun of at school and hated for being Jewish. She is sympathetic for the black community who come into her father’s store. Their situation is far worse than hers, for the Ku Klux Klan visits the black ghetto murdering people, whose bodies show up in the river. When Ruth gets pregnant by her black boyfriend, both know his life is at stake, and she