Suffer the children: dashing, ambitious Hillel
Svoboda, the intelligent, free-thinking humanist
Lael Lassalle, and the beautiful Natanya Jacobi –
the next generation who paid for the sins of their
fathers and the sins of their father’s fathers and
the sins of their father’s father’s fathers …
and so it goes.
This story is a passport to a uniquely rich part
of Jewish civilization. It is a historic saga that
reveals the dynamics of a family torn apart by envy,
love, and hate. It is liberally sprinkled with
Yiddish that you don’t have to be Jewish to get!
It might leave you asking: Did our ancestors leave
us hardly more than our genes and a
BREADCRUMB TRAIL of their existence?
It is the tale of shtetel-dwellers in Russia in the
nineteenth century, but it could take place anywhere
yesterday, today, or perhaps tomorrow - no matter
the people’s nationality, no matter their religion, no
matter their differences, as long as there is
prejudice and hatred and the element of human
nature, and until those who seek to destroy us are
vanquished from the face of the earth, history is
known to repeat itself.
Suffer the children: dashing, ambitious Hillel
Svoboda, the intelligent, free-thinking humanist
Lael Lassalle, and the beautiful Natanya Jacobi –
the next generation who paid for the sins of their
fathers and the sins of their father’s fathers and
the sins of their father’s father’s fathers …
and so it goes.
This story is a passport to a uniquely rich part
of Jewish civilization. It is a historic saga that
reveals the dynamics of a family torn apart by envy,
love, and hate. It is liberally sprinkled with
Yiddish that you don’t have to be Jewish to get!
It might leave you asking: Did our ancestors leave
us hardly more than our genes and a
BREADCRUMB TRAIL of their existence?
It is the tale of shtetel-dwellers in Russia in the
nineteenth century, but it could take place anywhere
yesterday, today, or perhaps tomorrow - no matter
the people’s nationality, no matter their religion, no
matter their differences, as long as there is
prejudice and hatred and the element of human
nature, and until those who seek to destroy us are
vanquished from the face of the earth, history is
known to repeat itself.