generational story
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FROM: <cheuer@itol.com>
REC'D: 3/7/02, 3:22 PM
Jeanne Heuer
Brown County Library
FROM: "Marla" <marla@orion.mtgr.mtlib.org>
REC'D: 3/7/02, 3:52 PM
It's been awhile since I read it, but this sound like The Book of
Rachel by Joel Gross.
The main characters are family members named Rachel, who
receive a family diamond necklace as the family's story is told.
BYE!
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Great Falls MT 59401-2593
marla@orion.mtgt.mtlib.org
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FROM: David Wright <dwright333@yahoo.com>
REC'D: 3/7/02, 5:26 PM
The Books of Rachel
by Joel Gross.
Seaview Books, 1979. 440p.
Jewish diamond merchants through six centuries
name the first-born female in each generation
Rachel.
The Books of Rachel is a fictional microcosm of
500 years of Jewish history. Since the 15th
century, in the Cuheno family, the first daughter
born to the family is given the name Rachel and a
heritage of faith and courage as precious as the
family diamond. A saga sweeping from the Spanish
Inquisition to the birth of a Jewish homeland.
Another possibility:
Missing, by Michelle Herman.
Ohio State University Press, 1990. 146p
Booklist Review: What's missing is a collection
of black crystal beads Rivke Vasilevsky has been
saving to make a necklace for her granddaughter,
Rachel. A hammer is missing, too, also a pin, a
scarf, and Rivke's husband Sol, dead nearly two
years. Even Rivke's memories of her youth are
fading fast. What is not missing is compassionate
exposure of an old Jewish woman letting go,
giving her possessions away, and relinquishing
her grasp on memories--some bitter, some
joyous--in preparation for the only event left
for a woman in her nineties--death. Yet Rivke is
still very much alive, and although what she
assumes to be missing turns out merely to be
misplaced, her reflections are so fresh and
indelible that what's been lost is overshadowed
by what is found. --
David Wright
Seattle Public Library
--- cheuer@itol.com wrote:
> That is how the customer described this book
> she is searching for. The main character is a
> jewish woman (Rachel or Rebecca) and a family
> diamond necklace is somehow involved.
> Sorry, that's all I have to go on.
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> Jeanne Heuer
> Brown County Library
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FROM: Heuer <cheuer@itol.com>
REC'D: 3/12/02, 6:10 PM
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Jeanne Heuer
Brown County Library
Green Bay, WI
cheuer@itol.com
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