The Nine Inheritors: The Extraordinary Odyssey of a Family and Their Ancient Torah Scroll - Couverture souple

Datnow, Claire

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ISBN 10 : 0984277854 ISBN 13 : 9780984277858

Editeur : Media Mint Publishing, 2011

Synopsis

We have all fantasized about inheriting great wealth, but what is the burden if the inheritance is a rare family legacy—a hand written Torah? The Nine Inheritors tells the intimate life stories of nine heirs and how the Torah challenges them in unexpected ways. In The Nine Inheritors, Datnow recreates the worlds of our forefathers and of contemporary America. We follow the Torah and it inheritors from its “birth” in Jerusalem in the last decade of the eighteenth century, to a humble Lithuanian shtetl and then from New York City to the xenophobic South, from the top secret Manhattan Project at Los Alamos to burgeoning Silicon Valley, and from the colorful Jewish community of Mexico City to the struggling Palestinian State of the twenty-first century. All the while the Torah’s fate hangs in the balance miraculously surviving catastrophic events, until Neta Rosen, the eighth inheritor, accidentally desecrates it. In a surprising climax Samuel, the ninth inheritor, resurrects the Torah—and himself—in his own remarkable fashion. Readers of all persuasions can readily relate to The Nine Inheritors; a fascinating story encompassing the history of modern Jewry and in many ways serves as a microcosm of the culture's trials and endurance

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Claire Klein Datnow was born and raised in South Africa. Her first published worked appeared in the Johannesburg daily newspaper, promoting the cause of game preservation. She was surprised by the twenty rand (about $50.00) she received for the article, which made an entire page with a handsome picture of the rhino photographed by her husband. She taught creative writing to gifted and talented students, and now writes full time. She is the proud grandmother of six precious granddaughters. She and her husband live and pursue their avocations—nature and travel photography and videography—on a mountaintop in Birmingham, Alabama

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Media Mint Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0984277854
• ISBN 13: 9780984277858
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 562
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