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Restrictive immigration laws keep Alisa Rosenbaum out of the United States, so instead she decides to move to a country with more liberal laws respecting Russian Jewish immigrants--South Africa. ("Between 1920 and 1930, 20,000 Jewish immigrants arrived in South Africa. http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/vjw/South_Africa.html) Maybe the POD is that in this ATL she has relatives in Johannesburg instead of Chicago. Does she still become a famous writer?
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