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...streets of Bilgoray and Lublin. Many stories contain transsexual themes-oblique references to his mother and father; Isaac's older brother, Novelist Israel Joshua Singer (The Brothers Ashkenazi), called his parents' marriage "a tragedy, due to the fact that fate transposed genders in heaven." His father, a rabbi, was "soft," his wife was "sharp"; he was "more a creature of the heart than of intellect," she was "totally devoted to reason and logic...
Brill's determination to unite religious and secular knowledge, a goal spawned during his unusually eventful childhood in France, is the guiding theme of the novel. Brill is the archetypal child prodigy, spending more time learning Taahnit from his rabbi and making telescopic observations than running in the street playing stickball. The young Brill's diligence naturally leads him to--among other places--the Sorbonne, where, like the prototypical Harvard student, he learns to "think big," Perhaps too big for his own good...
...with the nuns--and subsequent months of hiding in the hayloft of a barn--reinforce rather than erode his convictions and faith in the human mind. Brill determines to bear witness to the atrocities of the Nazi's in an individual way: by fusing the tenets of his childhood rabbi with the teachings of his university...
...less than six weeks. The first fire badly charred the wooden interior of the Young Israel of West Hartford Synagogue. Four days later, a second blaze gutted Emanuel Synagogue, a few blocks from the site of the first arson. The next day, flames raced through the home of Rabbi Solomon Krupka, spiritual leader of Young Israel. He and his family were away; six guests staying there managed to escape unharmed...
...resident minister in Cairo, and is believed to have committed the 1948 murder of Swedish U.N. Mediator Folke Bernadotte. Twice Shamir was imprisoned by the British, and twice he escaped. In 1941 he stole out of detention, grew a full beard and traveled around the country disguised as a rabbi; in 1946 he helped fellow prisoners in Eritrea tunnel their way to freedom, fled to Ethiopia and sought asylum in France. When the British quit Palestine in 1948, following the creation of the state of Israel, Shamir returned at last to Tel Aviv. He later entered the shadowy realm...