Come meet and get all three books — Please Say Kaddish For Me, From Silt and Ashes, and As One Must, One Can!
on March 4, 2018
This is the story of Havah, you young Jewish woman growing up in early 20th century Russia. If you’ve The Fiddler on the Roof, you might have some idea of the setting. There are some similarities to that musical. They both have themes of love that goes beyond the bounds of tradition, and they both have pogroms and expulsion as defining moments. In Ms. Wisoff-Fields’ book, though, the antisemitism is even darker and bloodier. The book is full of interesting characters, not all of them good people. All of them, though, are drawn as human, with the good people having faults and the bad redeeming qualities. OK, for the most part, those participating in the violence are only briefly seen, and there only the bad side, but for those characters that appear on more than a handful of pages, there are humanizing qualities.