Shtetl Dreams The Krakowski family treat the orphan heartlessly, feeding him leftover scraps and making him sleep alone in a mouldy basement. Little Shaime is only ten when both his parents die, leaving him and hi
| Title | : | Shtetl Dreams |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.82 (178 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1503509818 |
| Format Type | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 510 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-08-31 |
| Genre | : |
Sarka is only thirteen when her mother suddenly tells her one day, "I dreamed that you got married to the rabbi." These words inform the young girl that she will marry a sixty-five-year-old widower and her fate will be determined by her mother's dream. Sarka's parents remain adamant that she will marry the rabbi whereupon all her youthful dreams of eventually marrying for love are quashed. Little Shaime is only ten when both his parents die, leaving him and his four siblings not only orphaned but penniless. While homes are found for his younger brothers and sisters, there is no family ready to adopt an older boy, and his grandparents have no room for him. So he is sent away to earn his keep as a saddler's apprentice in Lublin. The Krakowski family treat the orphan heartlessly, feeding him leftover scraps and making him sleep alone in a mouldy basement. Yet Shaime clings to his dream of one day having a childhood like any normal boy. The Second World War arrives, and when the carnage is
Editorial : About the Author In most novels, it is customary to say either at the beginning or at the end that any resemblance between the characters in the book and between living people, or people who once lived, is completely coincidental and that all events related in the story are merely the author's imagination. In this case, the opposite is true. The central characters that are described in this novel did indeed live, and their names have also been kept unchanged. The whole novel started with a guided study tour, one of the many that the Israel Broadcasting Authority used regularly to offer its staff. During the long coach journey, my friend and colleague Menachem Peri told me of an incident from the life of Sarka, his maternal grandmother. He said that when she was only thirteen years old her family forced her to marry an elderly widower, the rabbi from the little town of Belzitz, where they lived. It had come about only because her mother had a dream in which her eldest daughter married t
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