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Product Identifiers

PublisherNew York Review of Books, Incorporated, T.H.E.

ISBN-101590178149

ISBN-139781590178140

eBay Product ID (ePID)175190264

Product Key Features

Book TitleIn the Courtyard of the Kabbalist

Number of Pages208 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicContemporary Women, Religious, Mystery & Detective / General, Jewish

Publication Year2014

GenreFiction

AuthorRuchama King Feuerman

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.6 in

Item Weight11.2 Oz

Item Length8.3 in

Item Width5.5 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2013-047145

Reviews"With its colorful and believable cast of characters, this book is a hearty and flavorful chicken soup to warm the spirits of anyone interested in a close-up, folksy read about Middle Eastern society with all its blemishes and hopes." -- Library Journal "In Ruchama King Feuerman''s second novel, In the Courtyard of the Kabbalist, she creates a compelling world within a world in Jerusalem. She conveys spiritual longings and the yearnings for human connection, all informed by the heavenly city and its mysteries."-- Sandee Brawarsky, Jewish Woman Magazine "A beautiful novel that coils the history and mystery of Jerusalem into a private and vivid tale of personal dignity, ownership, love-- and the overlap of all three, the space we call the soul." --Dara Horn "Feuerman is certainly worthy of attention. Her first novel, "Seven Blessings," was published by St. Martin''s Press, and one reviewer hailed her as the "Jewish Jane Austen." Her new book is more nearly a thriller, although it is, like her earlier work, much concerned with romantic intrigue, too....One of the great pleasures of her novel, in fact, is her rich and vivid evocation of contemporary Jerusalem, and especially the people and places in Jerusalem that would not be out of place in a novel by Isaac Bashevis Singer...Along the way, Feuerman displays a sharp eye for the rhythms of real life in Jerusalem...Here the author shows that she may be the Jewish Jane Austen, but she is also something of a Jewish Graham Greene."-- Jonathan Kirsch, Jewish Journal "...the elegantly written novel spins the tale of three enchanting characters, whose search for meaning and love is bound to resonate with readers...[the] novelist''s rich imagination [is] unleashed on Jerusalem''s Old City." Jewish Standard " In The Courtyard Of The Kabbalist is a beautifully written, emotionally evocative novel enriched by fascinating characters and an unparalleled portrait of the magical city that is Jerusalem."-- Jonathan Kellerman "The unlikely friendship of an intellectual New York Jew and a working-class Jerusalem Arab drives Feuerman''s evocative second novel...This friendship is all the more unlikely because it occurs in the divided city of Jerusalem... The city itself emerges as a character: its climate and topography are depicted with a lyricism that contrasts with the area''s political tension. [The] story unfolds as a belated coming-of-age tale....[written in a] quiet, lovely mood." -- Publishers Weekly "The new New York Review of Books e-book plumbs the depths of men and women, of Israelis and Arabs, and finds both common ground and common fear" "The tour through their hearts and minds, particularly Isaac''s and Mustafa''s, makes for some of the most deeply interesting, challenging reading of the year....It''s a short book, but a densely packed one with moments worth re-reading as you go." -- Booksworld.com "In her irresistible novel In the Courtyard of the Kabbalist , Ruchama King Feuerman writes with such contagious affection for her characters that they''re likely to supplant your own family until you finish the book. Her Jerusalem, riven though it is by tensions between the sacred and profane, remains an intoxicating place, where diffident lovers inhabit an atmosphere as romantically charged as "The Song of Songs." --Steve Stern, author of The Wedding Jester and The Angel of Forgetfulness. "Absorbing, fascinating, intriguing and more, written by a creative storyteller with an amazing skill for originality." --Sybil Kaplan, The Kansas City Jewish Chronicle "How do people get along when they have been taught they can''t? Who do ancient artifacts belong to -- the person who unearths them or the people who valued them in the past? This is just one of the story lines in this lively, witty, and entertaining novel. Ruchama King writes with a light touch and great insight. This book is hard to put down." -Alice Elliott Dark, author of In the Gloaming and Think of England .

Dewey Edition23

Dewey Decimal813/.6

Synopsis2013 National Jewish Book Award Finalist American Library Association Sophie Brody Medal Honor title 2015 An eczema-riddled Lower East Side haberdasher, Isaac Markowitz, moves to Israel to repair his broken heart and becomes, much to his own surprise, the assistant to a famous old rabbi who daily dispenses wisdom (and soup) to the troubled souls who wash up in his courtyard. It is there that he meets the flame-haired Tamar, a newly religious young American hipster on a mission to live a spiritual life with a spiritual man. Into both of their lives comes Mustafa, a devout Muslim, deformed at birth, a janitor who works on the Temple Mount, holy to both Muslims and Jews. When Mustafa finds an ancient shard of pottery that may date back to the fi rst temple, he brings it to Isaac in friendship. That gesture sets in motion a series of events that lands Isaac in the company of Israel's worst criminal riff raff, puts Mustafa in mortal danger, and leaves Tamar struggling to save them both. As these characters--immigrants and natives; Muslim and Jewish; prophets and lost souls--move through their world, they are never sure if they will fall prey to the cruel tricks of luck or be sheltered by a higher power., National Jewish Book Award Finalist "A sophisticated and engaging" novel set in contemporary Jerusalem "that treats an endlessly tangled topic--relations between Palestinian Arabs and Jews--with intelligence and originality," from an author hailed as the Jewish Jane Austen and Graham Green ( The Wall Street Journal ). An eczema-riddled Lower East Side haberdasher, Isaac Markowitz, moves to Israel to repair his broken heart and becomes, much to his own surprise, the assistant to a famous old rabbi who daily dispenses wisdom (and soup) to the troubled souls who wash up in his courtyard. It is there that he meets the flame-haired Tamar, a newly religious young American hipster on a mission to live a spiritual life with a spiritual man. Into both of their lives comes Mustafa, a devout Muslim, deformed at birth, a janitor who works on the Temple Mount, holy to both Muslims and Jews. When Mustafa finds an ancient shard of pottery that may date back to the first temple, he brings it to Isaac in friendship. That gesture sets in motion a series of events that lands Isaac in the company of Israel's worst criminal riff raff, puts Mustafa in mortal danger, and leaves Tamar struggling to save them both. As these characters--immigrants and natives; Muslim and Jewish; prophets and lost souls--move through their world, they are never sure if they will fall prey to the cruel tricks of luck or be sheltered by a higher power.

LC Classification NumberPS3611.I585I6 2014