The Resource Among the living, Jonathan Rabb
Among the living, Jonathan Rabb
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The item Among the living, Jonathan Rabb represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Portland Public Library.
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- Summary
- "A moving novel about a Holocaust survivor's unconventional journey back to a new normal in 1940s Savannah, Georgia. In late summer 1947, thirty-one-year-old Yitzhak Goldah, a camp survivor, arrives in Savannah to live with his only remaining relatives. They are Abe and Pearl Jesler, older, childless, and an integral part of the thriving Jewish community that has been in Georgia since the founding of the colony. There, Yitzhak discovers a fractured world, where Reform and Conservative Jews live separate lives--distinctions, to him, that are meaningless given what he has been through. He further complicates things when, much to the Jeslers' dismay, he falls in love with Eva, a young widow within the Reform community. When a woman from Yitzhak's past suddenly appears--one who is even more shattered than he is--Yitzhak must choose between a dark and tortured familiarity and the promise of a bright new life. Set amid the backdrop of America's postwar south, Among the Living grapples with questions of identity and belonging, and steps beyond the Jewish experience as it situates Yitzhak's story during the last gasp of the Jim Crow era. Yitzhak begins to find echoes of his own experience in the lives of the black family who work for the Jeslers--an affinity he does not share with the Jeslers themselves. This realization both surprises and convinces Yitzhak that his choices are not as clear-cut as he might have thought"--
- Language
- eng
- Label
- Among the living
- Title
- Among the living
- Statement of responsibility
- Jonathan Rabb
- Subject
-
- FICTION -- Historical
- FICTION -- Jewish
- FICTION -- Literary
- Familles juives -- États-Unis -- Romans, nouvelles, etc
- Family life -- Fiction
- Fiction
- Georgia
- Georgia -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction
- Georgia -- Social life and customs -- Fiction
- Historical fiction
- Historical fiction
- Historical fiction
- Historical fiction
- Historical fiction
- Holocaust survivors -- United States -- Fiction
- 1800-1899
- Jewish families -- United States -- Fiction
- Jewish fiction
- Jews -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
- Man-woman relationships
- Man-woman relationships -- Fiction
- Man-woman relationships -- Fiction
- Manners and customs
- Relations entre hommes et femmes -- Romans, nouvelles, etc
- Savannah (Ga.) -- Fiction
- United States
- Jewish families
- American fiction
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "A moving novel about a Holocaust survivor's unconventional journey back to a new normal in 1940s Savannah, Georgia. In late summer 1947, thirty-one-year-old Yitzhak Goldah, a camp survivor, arrives in Savannah to live with his only remaining relatives. They are Abe and Pearl Jesler, older, childless, and an integral part of the thriving Jewish community that has been in Georgia since the founding of the colony. There, Yitzhak discovers a fractured world, where Reform and Conservative Jews live separate lives--distinctions, to him, that are meaningless given what he has been through. He further complicates things when, much to the Jeslers' dismay, he falls in love with Eva, a young widow within the Reform community. When a woman from Yitzhak's past suddenly appears--one who is even more shattered than he is--Yitzhak must choose between a dark and tortured familiarity and the promise of a bright new life. Set amid the backdrop of America's postwar south, Among the Living grapples with questions of identity and belonging, and steps beyond the Jewish experience as it situates Yitzhak's story during the last gasp of the Jim Crow era. Yitzhak begins to find echoes of his own experience in the lives of the black family who work for the Jeslers--an affinity he does not share with the Jeslers themselves. This realization both surprises and convinces Yitzhak that his choices are not as clear-cut as he might have thought"--
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- Provided by publisher
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Rabb, Jonathan
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Jewish families
- Man-woman relationships
- Georgia
- Family life
- Georgia
- Familles juives
- Relations entre hommes et femmes
- FICTION
- FICTION
- FICTION
- Jewish families
- Man-woman relationships
- Manners and customs
- Georgia
- United States
- Jews
- Holocaust survivors
- Man-woman relationships
- Savannah (Ga.)
- Label
- Among the living, Jonathan Rabb
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 934676654
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- 303 pages
- Isbn
- 9781590518038
- Lccn
- 2016008314
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Note
- WorldCat record variable field(s) change: 650, 651, 655
- Other control number
- 99969104871
- System control number
- (OCoLC)934676654
- Label
- Among the living, Jonathan Rabb
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 934676654
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- 303 pages
- Isbn
- 9781590518038
- Lccn
- 2016008314
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Note
- WorldCat record variable field(s) change: 650, 651, 655
- Other control number
- 99969104871
- System control number
- (OCoLC)934676654
Subject
- FICTION -- Historical
- FICTION -- Jewish
- FICTION -- Literary
- Familles juives -- États-Unis -- Romans, nouvelles, etc
- Family life -- Fiction
- Fiction
- Georgia
- Georgia -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction
- Georgia -- Social life and customs -- Fiction
- Historical fiction
- Historical fiction
- Historical fiction
- Historical fiction
- Historical fiction
- Holocaust survivors -- United States -- Fiction
- 1800-1899
- Jewish families -- United States -- Fiction
- Jewish fiction
- Jews -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
- Man-woman relationships
- Man-woman relationships -- Fiction
- Man-woman relationships -- Fiction
- Manners and customs
- Relations entre hommes et femmes -- Romans, nouvelles, etc
- Savannah (Ga.) -- Fiction
- United States
- Jewish families
- American fiction
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