The Origin of Sorrow
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| Rating | : | 4.43 (552 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B005O53XF0 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 222 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-10-25 |
| Language | : | English |
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This is a novel, both amusing and sad, that will grace your bookshelf for generations – a book you will want your children to read and discuss as they reach maturity.. It was a time of love, of struggle, of hope, of worship, of the birth of dynasties and the crushing affliction of hatredIn the 1770s, the Jews of Frankfurt are trapped, both physically by the walls of the ghetto within which they must dwell, and in a larger sense by the rules of a society in which they are outcasts, legally debased and barely suffered to live.And yet within those confines they find life, in all its glories and tragedies. This is the story of you
Mrs E Manasse said Highly recommended. Enjoyed every minute of this book. Well written, interesting from a historical point of view and characters hold attention.. Leona Stucky-Abbott said Beautifully crafted - a stunning work of art. Robert Mayer's masterpiece, The Origin of Sorrow, captured my attention on page one and carried me through about six hundred pages in one breath. With phrases I treasured for their clarity and attuned acuity, he vividly portrayed profound and timeless intricacies of community. His full blooded characters endured what they had to and shaped what they could. These grounded and capable leader. "A Must Read" according to Art Stevens. I didn't know what to expect when I was urged to read "The Origin of Sorrow" by friends. I understood it to be a book about the Rothschild family patriarch Meyer. And his wife Guttel. And of the Jewish ghetto within Frankfurt in the 18th century. All interesting subjects. But what I didn't know at the time was that the book was written by one of the least known but at the same time one of