The Shovel and the Loom - Hardcover

Friedman, Carl

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0892554088 ISBN 13: 9780892554089

Verlag: PERSEA BOOKS INC, 1996

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Reseña del editor:

Chaya, the daughter of Holocaust survivors, lives in the old Jewish quarter of Antwerp, Belgium. Twenty years old, a philosophy student (and nonbeliever), she takes care of the children of an Hasidic family by day. At night she stays up reading - Nietzsche, Einstein, the Baal Shem Tov. The more she reads, the less she seems to understand. Does God exist? What does it mean to be a Jew? Chaya questions the reasons for anti-Semitism, the role of women in Judaism, the reasons for suffering. Mr. Apfelschnitt, an old friend of her father, tells Chaya that Creation is a masterpiece, that Science can't replace God or the Torah. But her father advises her to study physics. Then he goes back to his old maps of Antwerp, looking for the spot to dig, to recover the two suitcases he buried during the war. Trying to put her Auschwitz past behind her, Chaya's mother obsesses over baking, tea, and weaving. Her advice to Chaya: go out dancing. Finally, it is Chaya's love for Simeha, the three-year-old boy in her care, that provides the key. She clashes with his tradition-bound father, then propelled by a tragic accident, learns just how much she is tied to her people and her faith.

Biografía del autor:

Carl Friedman was born in 1952, the daughter of Holocaust survivors. She lives in Amsterdam

Jeannette K. Ringold has translated a number of literary novels from Dutch, including Anna Enquist s "The Masterpiece" and "The Secret".

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• Verlag: PERSEA BOOKS INC
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0892554088
• ISBN 13: 9780892554089
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 176