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The Rabbi's Suitcase

By Robert Kehlmann

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The Rabbi's Suitcase

By Robert Kehlmann

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Inspired by history and a trove of love letters, The Rabbi's Suitcase recounts how, in the early 1880s, a battered steamship, overcrowded with Orthodox Jewish travelers, makes a treacherous journey from Lithuania to Jerusalem, the home of their patriarchs. On board, Yosef Siev, a twelve-year-old mystic, is entranced with wild-haired Chana. Their story is told against a backdrop of Ottoman rule, the privations of WWI, and British Mandatory uprisings.
In 1926 Yosef and Chana's seventeen-year-old granddaughter, Zipora, enters into a forbidden relationship with Reuven, a young Lithuanian immigrant destined, as a close ally of David Ben Gurion, to become a founder of the State of Israel. The liaison extracts a heavy toll. With dreams of self-discovery and a better future for herself and her family, Zipora travels to America determined to contribute to Reuven's studies at the Sorbonne. Conflicts arise over issues of politics, gender inequality, and fidelity, forcing heart-wrenching decisions.
Product details
Number of Pages:
374
Release Date:
2025-05-09
Publication Date:
2025-05-06
Publisher:
Koehler Books
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN13:
9798888246993
Weight:
757 g
Height:
157 cm
Width:
235 cm
Thickness:
27 cm
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