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The Family as Text: Tamar Yellin’s “The Genizah at the House of Shepher”

March 19th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Culture and Ideas

Tamar Yellin has constructed a novel around an ingenious premise: that families are like texts. Just as ancient manuscripts of sacred books contain the same basic text but show surprising, odd, or idiosyncratic variations, so the members of a family, over many generations, share the same fundamental content but display individual peculiarities. The Genizah at [...]

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