1906 JEWISH POLAND A Day of Small Beginnings Novel Lisa Pearl Rosenbaum 1st ED

Description: Shipping: All items will be packed safely in a sturdy package for safe shipping. We ship internationally and offer combined shipping for multiple purchases. Expedited, Priority Mail and FedEx shipping available Once payment is received, we ship your item on the next business day. A Day of Small Beginnings: A Novel Hardcover – November 3, 2006 by Lisa Pearl Rosenbaum (Author) Poland, 1906: on a cold spring night, in the small Jewish cemetery of Zokof, Friedl Alterman is wakened from death. On the ground above her crouches Itzik Leiber, a reclusive, unbelieving fourteen-year-old whose fatal mistake has spurred the town's angry residents to violence. The childless Friedl rises to guide him to safety -- only to find she cannot go back to her grave. Now Friedl is trapped in that thin world between life and death, her brash decision binding her forever to Itzik and his family: she is fated to be forever restless, and he, forever haunted by the ghosts of his past. Rosenbaum's debut sets The Lovely Bones to strains of Fiddler on the Roof. In rural Zokof, Poland, in 1906, young Itzik Leiber protects three small Jewish boys from a beating, resulting in the accidental death of a menacing Polish peasant. Itzik hides in a Jewish cemetery where he unknowingly draws the soul of Friedl Alterman—who died the previous year at 83. Friedl, childless in life, protects Itzik as he flees Zokof for Warsaw, then America. Fast forward 86 years as Itzik's son, Nathan Linden (name change), a scholar of international law, is a guest of the Polish government. He is drawn to his father's hometown (via a still-protective Friedl), and there he comes upon Rafael Bergson, "the last Jew in Zokof," who forces Nathan to confront his ambiguous feelings about religion and begs him to help restore Friedl's spirit through prayer and ritual. But it may be up to Ellen, Nathan's free-spirited choreographer daughter, to come to Poland to liberate Friedl's soul. Friedl's voice retreats after the early chapters, and Rosenbaum handles the shifts in voice, time and place smoothly. She packs a lot of Jewish history, recent and otherwise, into this luminous tale, as well as joy in the arts and in prayer. "How do you know who you are if you don't know where your family came from?" A Polish American Jewish family's search for roots provides the gripping drama in this first novel. Itzik, 14, flees a violent anti-Semitic attack in his Polish village in 1906 and makes his way to America. A vehement Yiddish socialist, he hates religion. He never talks about his past, and his son, Nathan, a Harvard scholar, never asks. Then, in Warsaw for an academic conference in 1991, Nathan visits Pop's hometown and speaks with the one Jew who has remained there after the Holocaust. Two years later, Nathan's daughter, in Poland for a dance performance, has a love affair with a Catholic musician, and they change each other, even as she confronts the continuing anti-Semitism and the riches she has lost. Neither reverential nor simplistic, this is a stirring story of secrets and discovery and, sometimes, mystical connection, especially for those who wish they had asked about family history before it was too late. Hardcover: 368 pages Publisher: Little, Brown and Company; 1st edition (November 3, 2006) Language: English Product Dimensions: 6 x 1.1 x 9 inches CONDITION VERY GOOD HARDCOVER FIRST EDITION 2006 by Little, Brown and Co, Hardcover w dust jacket 374 CONDITION: Book in close to new condition no markings, animal hairs or odor, faint rubs on jacket, Discarded stamp on inner cover ABOUT US: over 15 years of experience in online selling with high customer satisfaction . BUY WITH CONFIDENCE - If you don't like the item, just return it in the way you received it and we will gladly return the purchase price. Email me with any questions you may have. We offer combined shipping for one low shipping charge. PLEASE CLICK HERE FOR MORE GREAT Books on Politics, Business, Art and HISTORY Please click the link below for all items for sale: PLEASE CLICK HERE FOR Great Collectible AUDIO CDs, Vintage 78 rpm Records and Turntable/ Phonograph Items Powered by SixBit's eCommerce Solution

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