He tells his Palestinian neighbor the story of the Jewish people.
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He tells his Palestinian neighbor the story of the Jewish people.
Really engaging and a beautifully told story of the Jews of Cairo.
You feel the tension, you feel the idealism, you feel the weight of history... Moriel Rothman-Zecher magnificently weaves all these strands of Jewish identity together.
The premise of this novel is *right* up my ally: Jews, history, romance, a story spanning generations.... but it just fell a little flat
I was drawn to the book for two reasons: one, I didn't know the story of Greece during WWII, and two, I didn't know what a lamenter did...
Shulem Deen's memoir opens with his expulsion from his Skverer Hasidic community in New Square, New York...
"...It is perhaps the most powerful of all Jewish ideas: expression is generative.” (Emphasis mine). And for Safran Foer, he embraces this Jewish relationship with words."
