Among the Living
by:
Jonathan Rabb (author)
A moving novel about a Holocaust survivor's unconventional journey back to a new normal in 1940s Savannah, Georgia. In late summer 1947, thirty-one-year-old Yitzhak Goldah, a camp survivor, arrives in Savannah to live with his only remaining relatives. They are Abe and Pearl Jesler, older,...
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A moving novel about a Holocaust survivor's unconventional journey back to a new normal in 1940s Savannah, Georgia. In late summer 1947, thirty-one-year-old Yitzhak Goldah, a camp survivor, arrives in Savannah to live with his only remaining relatives. They are Abe and Pearl Jesler, older, childless, and an integral part of the thriving Jewish community that has been in Ge
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Format: Hardcover
ISBN:
9781590518038 (1590518039)
Publisher: Other Press
Pages no: 288
Edition language: English
Yitzhak Goldah has survived the camps and, as Jonathan Rabb’s Among the Living opens, is being welcomed by his only surviving relatives in Savannah, Georgia. Yitzhak has recovered physically, but he feels numb. He doesn’t care when his cousins suggest changing his name to Ike (to be less obviously J...