Word: ilana
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Leading the cast, made up of various professionals from the Boston area as well as some Harvard students, is Rod Nelman as Figaro, a servant to the Count and Countess Almaviva. Ilana Davidson stars as his future bride, Susanna. In roles commonly given to 50-ish opera stars, it is refreshing to see two young leading singers play the parts of lovers who just can't quite seem to get married, no matter how hard they...
...crackdown soon followed, and among those who felt the law's pinch were an Israeli vice consul based in New York City, Hanan Moked, 43, and his wife Ilana, 40. The couple was arrested after making a series of calls between Hackensack and Israel. Making such a call from a malfunctioning phone is considered to be a deliberate defrauding of the phone company. Moked is charged with theft of services, punishable by up to six months in jail or a $1,000 fine. Are officials at the Israeli consulate embarrassed by the episode? "To say the least," says Consul General...
...spiritual odyssey which lies at the heart of Davita's Harp begins one summer on Long Island. In order to escape the heat of the inner city, Ilana's parents rent a cottage on the beach next door to Anne's cousins, a recently widowed Orthodox Jew named Ezra Dinn and his young son, David. The sounds that come from the Dinn's house during the course of the summer, the Kaddish or prayer for the dead, the morning prayers and Sabbath hymns, catch Ilana's ear while she is sitting on the beach building sand castles or reading...
...dark pall hovers over the the story when Ilana's father is killed while covering the fascist bombing of Guernica. Ilana continues to go to synagogue in order to say Kaddish despite her mother's disapproval. Soon, Ilana leaves public school and enrolls in a Jewish day school. There is a sort of spiritual determinism at work here: despite her mother's adamant atheism, despite her father's Protestant background Ilana has a Jewish soul in need of uncovering. This represents a twist of the theme of generational conflict that is at the crux of much of Potok's work...
...NOVEL CLOSES WITH a double irony. After a few years of lonely widowhood Ilana mother marries. Ezra Dinn and is recorded with her past. Ilana Calls 1941 the happiest year of her youth as her news family settles down to a normal life. But just as this newfound happiness appears to keep the events of the outer world at bay and prevent them from invading the hearth the unmentioned yet ever present destruction of European lewry hovers in the background. And just as her mother finally makes peace with the world the male orientation orthodox. Indaism begins to unsettle Ilana...