Hints from Paris |
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Author:
| Gold, Gitty |
ISBN: | 978-1-4836-5320-4 |
Publication Date: | Jun 2013 |
Publisher: | Xlibris Corporation LLC
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $28.03 |
Book Description:
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Rachel and Reuben Rabinovitch live in Haifa, all their kids are marriage and while he is busy most of the day, she finds herself bored.
She doesn't have friends and employment, and trying to find herself since her role as mother and housewife decreased significantly but on the other and,he still feels young in spirit and able to contribute to society.
The story spans four generations and family shows an unusual complication, the story take place in Israel, Lucerne in...
More DescriptionRachel and Reuben Rabinovitch live in Haifa, all their kids are marriage and while he is busy most of the day, she finds herself bored.
She doesn't have friends and employment, and trying to find herself since her role as mother and housewife decreased significantly but on the other and,he still feels young in spirit and able to contribute to society.
The story spans four generations and family shows an unusual complication, the story take place in Israel, Lucerne in Switzerland, Paris and Italy. families migrated to America during the Holocaust, some assimilated, some returned and some entangled tell the story while weaving known historical events. Rachel debating all along and tries to explain herself and readers what is judgmental, why is it so suffers when her mother judge her and disapproving way of life it for herself, as she puts herself on the judge her on children, their lifestyle, their situation, their relationship and relationships in their families.
Eventually she herself reveals how what she see there is not what they seem, and how that invalidates calling the kettle black. It Rachel cried throughout the book against the judgment actually reveals to her children that she herself does exactly what her mother had made for her. Business as usual.
Look book reflects Israeli society in all its forms, opening a window to the lives of the ultra-Orthodox and their difficulties acclimating to Israel by foreign residents and live in Israel.