Rachel Kadish
Autor de The Weight of Ink
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Obras de Rachel Kadish
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The New Diaspora: The Changing Landscape of American Jewish Fiction (2015) — Contribuidor — 13 copias
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1969
- Género
- female
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- País (para mapa)
- USA
- Lugares de residencia
- Massachusetts, USA
- Educación
- Princeton University (BA)
New York University (MA ∙ Creative Writing) - Ocupaciones
- teacher (fiction and creative nonfiction)
writer-in-residence (Stanford University, Koret Writer In Residence, 2005) - Organizaciones
- Harvard University Summer School (teacher)
Boston College (teacher)
Lesley University (teacher, MFA program) - Premios y honores
- Harvard/Radcliffe’s Bunting Institute (fellow ∙ fiction)
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
Massachusetts Cultural Council (fellow)
Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature Finalist (2019) - Biografía breve
- She is married and has two children.
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Autodidacts (1)
Unmarried women (1)
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Estadísticas
- Obras
- 4
- También por
- 4
- Miembros
- 1,461
- Popularidad
- #17,584
- Valoración
- 4.0
- Reseñas
- 66
- ISBNs
- 28
- Idiomas
- 4
The plot follows two researchers that have found literary artifacts from the early 1600’s relating to London Jews. This discovery was initially found by owners of a four-hundred-year old house, Bridgette and Ian. So, we have the complicated background stories of the researchers Aaron and Helen. We are also following characters in the London of the 1600’s. Ester is a scribe to a blind rabbi who is using an assumed name to write letters to expelled Jewish heretic Spinoza!
I expected more a of clear-cut definition of why Spinoza was considered a heretic. Ester proved that there was no God who could treasure martyrdom which meant that the mother of the rabbi she worked for died in vain. She had been tortured during the Spanish inquisition. What the writer came up with was unsatisfying.
I longed for a logical connection between Aaron and Helen versus Ester’s story. Still this was an illuminating novel dealing with Jews in London during this period.… (más)