Judah the Pious by Francine Prose

Judah the Pious

Francine Prose

220 pages first pub 1973 (editions)

fiction historical hopeful mysterious reflective fast-paced
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In seventeenth-century Poland, a rabbi takes on the education of a king The Polish monarch has outlawed a portion of the Jewish funeral rite, and none of the community's lawyers, judges, or scholars will come forward to defend the custom before th...

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