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Aaron The Jew (Illustrated)

Aaron The Jew (Illustrated)

Farjeon, B. L.
Andre, Damian C.

Paperback

Classic Fiction

ISBN10: 1499662483
ISBN13: 9781499662481
Publisher: Createspace
Published: May 24 2014
Pages: 302
Weight: 1.55
Height: 0.63 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.02
Language: English
Aaron the Jew is, among other things, an anti-conversion novel, but it's of a startling sort. The plot hinges on a baby switch. (No, that's not why it's startling.) To avoid financial disaster, Aaron Cohen, an Orthodox Jew, agrees to raise a Christian child born out of wedlock. (The mother had been forced to give the baby up as part of a deal with a would-be husband. It's a sign of the Victorian times that the novel is not only sympathetic to the mother, but eventually lets her prosper.) But Aaron's own child, born at nearly the same time, dies suddenly, and fearing that the shock could kill his wife, Aaron passes off the baby girl as their own. (Mrs. Cohen is blind, which enables the switch.) Flash forward many years. The girl in question, Ruth, has been raised as a Jew...but refuses to embrace the faith.

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