A Queens yeshiva girl, Delilah is prayerfully remorseful after fornicating with young, opportunistic Yitzie Polinsky, and quickly marries mediocre rabbinical student Chaim Levi, who is unable to provide her with a house, much less the glossy upper-middle-class life she longs for. When Chaim accepts a position as the rabbi of an affluent Connecticut congregation, Delilah has the opportunity to indulge her ideas about happiness as the congregation's rebbitzin, with deliciously disastrous consequences.
It's hard to like selfish, clueless Delilah or anyone else here: the pleasure of this novel is in its mercilessness, with Ragen The Covenant raising the stakes until the very end.
Apple Books Preview. Publisher Description. But she fails to make the job appear to be an unbearable burden—these guys are the equivalent to middle management in a large corporation.
The book would be far more entertaining if Delilah possessed admirable traits; alas, she is bland in her depravity. For the non-Orthodox crowd, the scandals will seem tame, but the culture exotic. Based on real people and events, this debut novel follows Lale Sokolov, a young Slovakian Jew sent to Auschwitz in There, he assumes the heinous task of tattooing incoming Jewish prisoners with the dehumanizing numbers their SS captors use to identify them.
Eventually, the attraction becomes mutual. Through female prisoners who catalog the belongings confiscated from fellow inmates, Lale gains access to jewels, which he trades to a pair of local villagers for chocolate, medicine, and other items. Meanwhile, despite overwhelming odds, Lale and Gita are able to meet privately from time to time and become lovers. In , just ahead of the arrival of Russian troops, Lale and Gita separately leave the concentration camp and experience harrowingly close calls.
Suffice it to say they both survive. These letters from some important executive Down Below, to one of the junior devils here on earth, whose job is to corrupt mortals, are witty and written in a breezy style seldom found in religious literature. The author quotes Luther, who said: "The best way to drive out the devil, if he will not yield to texts of Scripture, is to jeer and flout him, for he cannot bear scorn. This kind of presentation gives the author a tremendous advantage over the reader, however, for the more timid reader may feel a sense of guilt after putting down this book.
It is a clever book, and for the clever reader, rather than the too-earnest soul. Already have an account? Log in. Trouble signing in? The first edition of the novel was published in , and was written by Naomi Ragen. The book was published in multiple languages including English, consists of pages and is available in Hardcover format. The main characters of this fiction, literature story are ,. The book has been awarded with , and many others.
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