2 Novels by Simone Zelitch
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Overview: THE AUTHOR OF HISTORICAL NOVELS RANGING IN SETTING FROM MEDIEVAL ENGLAND, TO WORLD War II Budapest, to the Jim Crow American South, Simone Zelitch traveled to former East Germany and Israel/Palestine and studied at the Vilnius Yiddish Institute while writing Judenstaat. She teaches at Community College of Philadelphia and writes in the summer.
Genre: Fiction > General Fiction/Classics
Louisa
Louisa follows three characters as they try to put their lives back together at the end of World War II. The voice pulling us into the novel belongs to Nora Csongradi, a fifty-year-old Holocaust survivor from Budapest. In 1949, she arrives in Israel with her German daughter-in-law Louisa. They expect to be met by Nora’s cousin Bela, a passionate Zionist and war hero who settled in Palestine thirty years before. But Bela — who Nora has loved from childhood, writing him letters almost daily until the war — fails to appear, stranding the two women in an absorption camp for new immigrants.Flexible as mercury, Louisa quickly adapts, even when the other refugees treat her with contempt. As Nora searches for Bela, she is forced to take stock of her life, a series of disappointments and missed opportunities. She has lost her family and is left with Louisa, who had hidden her during the war. Like the Biblical Ruth, Louisa clings to her dead husband’s mother. But to Nora, she is unwanted baggage. Nora sees Bela as her one chance to begin a new life. Yet Bela is far from perfect, and though he knows that Nora has arrived in Haifa, we discover that he is afraid to face her.
As the story unfolds, it becomes clear that the bond between Nora and Louisa is far from straightforward, and that finding Bela holds the key to their futures. Stranded in a new country that asks them to only look ahead, both women must face the past — and the responsibility each bears for what they have lost. Nora knows how to survive, but Louisa must teach her how to forgive.
Judenstaat
Simone Zelitch’s Judenstaat is a shocking alternate history.
On April 4th, 1948, the sovereign state of Judenstaat was created in the territory of Saxony, bordering Germany, Poland, and the Soviet Union.
Forty years later, Jewish historian Judit Klemmer is making a documentary portraying Judenstaat’s history from the time of its founding to the present. She is confronted by a mysterious, flesh-and-blood ghost from her past who leaves her controversial footage on one of Judenstaat’s founding fathers.
Judit’s research into the footage, and what really happened to Hans, embroils her in controversy and conspiracy, collective memory and national amnesia, and provides her with answers far more horrific than she imagined.
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