Among the living

Resource Information

The work Among the living represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Georgetown Peabody Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Among the living

Statement of responsibility

Jonathan Rabb

Creator

• Rabb, Jonathan

Author

• Rabb, Jonathan

Subject

• FICTION -- Literary
• Georgia -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction
• Historical fiction
• Jewish families -- United States -- Fiction
• FICTION -- Historical
• Man-woman relationships -- Fiction
• Jewish fiction
• FICTION -- Jewish

Genre

• Jewish fiction
• Historical fiction
• Fiction

Language

eng

Summary

"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 Georgia since the founding of the colony. There, Yitzhak discovers a fractured world, where Reform and Conservative Jews live separate lives--distinctions, to him, that are meaningless given what he has been through. He further complicates things when, much to the Jeslers' dismay, he falls in love with Eva, a young widow within the Reform community. When a woman from Yitzhak's past suddenly appears--one who is even more shattered than he is--Yitzhak must choose between a dark and tortured familiarity and the promise of a bright new life. Set amid the backdrop of America's postwar south, Among the Living grapples with questions of identity and belonging, and steps beyond the Jewish experience as it situates Yitzhak's story during the last gasp of the Jim Crow era. Yitzhak begins to find echoes of his own experience in the lives of the black family who work for the Jeslers--an affinity he does not share with the Jeslers themselves. This realization both surprises and convinces Yitzhak that his choices are not as clear-cut as he might have thought"--

Assigning source

Provided by publisher

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

813/.6

Index

no index present

LC call number

PS3568.A215

LC item number

A83 2016

Literary form

fiction