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02223aam a2200361 i 4500 001 7A68D858042F11EE896B6DEA35ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230606010033 008 220718s2023 ohu e 000 1 eng d 020 $a 8200705137 020 $a 9788200705130 020 $a 9798200705 020 $a 9789798200700 020 $a 9798200705139 035 $a (OCoLC)1336459814 040 $d SILO 100 1 $a Turtel, Daniel H., $e author. 245 14 $a The family Morfawitz / $c Daniel H. Turtel. 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a Ashland, OH : $b Blackstone Publishing, $c 2023. 300 $a 279 pages ; $c 24 cm 520 $a When Hadassah Morfawitz flees Nazi Germany with her siblings and arrives in New York, she is determined to turn the city into her own Mount Olympus at any cost. In choosing orphaned concentration camp survivor Zev Kretinberg as her husband and accomplice -- ensuring his loyalty with the promise of riches and the burial of a dark past -- she begins a ruthless journey toward the upper echelons of Park Avenue synagogue society. Their combined ambition knows no limits, and nothing will stand in the way of their realization of the American ideals of wealth and beauty, even if it means abandoning their son, Hezekial. Decades later, through machinations worthy of his parents, Hezekial becomes entrusted as the family's chronicler. As he sits with his aging father, transcribing a litany of Zev's sins from serving as a kapo at Gusen, to betraying the friends who helped him, to his blood-bound commitment to Hadassah despite numerous affairs and illegitimate children the younger Morfawitz is faced with a choice: whitewash a lifetime of cruelty, indifference, and lust, or repay his mother at last. 650 0 $a Jewish families $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Jews $z New York $z New York $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Ambition $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Holocaust survivors $v Fiction. 650 0 $a American Dream $v Fiction. 655 7 $a Historical fiction. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Domestic fiction. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Religious fiction. $2 lcgft 941 $a 1 952 $l CBPF522 $d 20230606010926.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=7A68D858042F11EE896B6DEA35ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search