The Frozen Rabbi What happens when an impressionable teenage boy inadvertently thaws out the ancient man and brings him back to life is nothing short of miraculous..Award-winning novelist Steve Stern’s exhilarating epic recounts the story of how a ni
| TITLE | : | The Frozen Rabbi |
| AUTHOR | : | |
| RATING | : | 4.97 (134 Votes) |
| ASIN | : | 1616200529 |
| FORMAT TYPE | : | Paperback |
| NUMBER of PAGES | : | 400 Pages |
| PUBLISH DATE | : | 2011-06-14 |
| GENRE | : |
Award-winning novelist Steve Stern’s exhilarating epic recounts the story of how a nineteenth-century rabbi from a small Polish town ends up in a basement freezer in a suburban Memphis home at the end of the twentieth century. What happens when an impressionable teenage boy inadvertently thaws out the ancient man and brings him back to life is nothing short of miraculous.
Editorial : From Booklist *Starred Review* Stern’s uproarious and trouncing romp through the anguish and ironies of the Jewish diaspora matches mysticism with mayhem, beatitude with organized crime, creativity with crassness. The madcap, at times, surreal action revolves around Rabbi Eliezer ben Zephyr, whose out-of-body journeys to the realm of the divine result in his being frozen in a block of ice in the Jewish Pale in 1889, a frigid relic that becomes one family’s problematic inheritance. In scenes of vivid drama and burlesque comedy on the same epic scale as Stern’s Angel of Forgetfulness (2005), the rabbi-on-ice is transported through a pogrom and across the Atlantic under the guardianship of a raven-haired woman protectively disguised as a man, who finds sanctuary with the sweet-natured, hunchbacked inventor Shmerl Karp in the roiling Lower East Side. Finally, in 1999, the &
Other good points: John Updike introduction and good biographical information by Lee Lorenz. Don't want to give anything away.. I'm new to Ayurveda and found this book to be really helpful, easy to use and not at all intimidating. I would say after reading most of the authors books you come to know what to expect. Even better were the explanations that followed every question. I just visited my daughter and my granddaughter (3 yrs) and am buying this book once again. The U.S. My library places this novel in the fantasy category. The geometry of the folds is mediocre but better than the drawings themselves, which are surprisingly poor. Thankfully, I am satisfied and I'll keep that book.
This book has really great information. There are also several worksheets included, but these are not time-killers or games; they are used to document and build on the hands-on portion of each l
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