This week on The Historians Podcast Annette Libeskind Berkovits discusses her historical novel The Corset Maker which tells the story of a courageous Orthodox Jewish teen, Rifka, who was living in Warsaw, Poland, in the late 1920s and early 1930s. Scenes in the book are also set in Paris, Spain and what was then Palestine. The character Rifka is loosely based on Berkovits’s mother Dora. Berkovits was born in Kyrgyzstan in Central Asia and grew up in postwar Poland and the fledgling state of Israel before coming to America at age sixteen. The book cover was designed by Berkovits’s brother...