Career
She also appeared as Meryl Streep"s Brooklyn landlady who appears at the beginning of Sophie"s Choice. Her voice can be heard singing children"s songs from the camps in the Holocaust Museum in Washington, District of Columbia The couple emigrated in 1948 to the United States, where she acted in the Yiddish theater in New York City. She and other actors read the works of Sholom Aleichem at the home of Belorussian Kaufman, Aleichem"s granddaughter, each year on the anniversary of the writer"s death.
Rita Karin died at 73 from undisclosed causes in New York City.