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Title:

MAZEL

By:

Rebecca Goldstein

Format:

Paperback

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ISBN 10:

0299181243

ISBN 13:

9780299181246

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Publisher:

UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN PRESS

Pub. date:

9 August, 2002

Series:

Library of American Fiction

Pages:

374

Description:

Sasha Saunders is the daughter of a Polish rabbi who wins renown as a Yiddish actress. Her daughter Chloe becomes a professor of classics, and Chloe's daughter Phoebe becomes a mathematician who is drawn to traditional Judaism and the domestic life her mother and grandmother rejected.

Synopsis:

Mazel means luck in Yiddish, and luck is the guiding force in this magical and mesmerizing novel that spans three generations. Sasha Saunders is the daughter of a Polish rabbi who abandons the shtetl and wins renown as a Yiddish actress in Warsaw and New York. Her daughter Chloe becomes a professor of classics at Columbia. Chloe s daughter Phoebe grows up to become a mathematician who is drawn to traditional Judaism and the sort of domestic life her mother and grandmother rejected."

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University of Wisconsin Press

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