ZOOM Book Club: The Weight of Ink by Rachel Kadish
Thursday, August 20, 2020 • 30 Av 5780
7:30 PM - 10:00 PMThe Weight of Ink
by Rachel Kadish
Join us for a lively discussion!
Meeting will be held by Zoom; stay tuned to the Shir Hadash newsletters for Zoom information as we get closer to August 20.
Questions? Contact the office at office@shir-hadash.org or (847)498-8218.
About the book:
Set in London of the 1660s and of the early twenty-first century, The Weight of Ink is the interwoven tale of two women of remarkable intellect: Ester Velasquez, an emigrant from Amsterdam who is permitted to scribe for a blind rabbi, just before the plague hits the city; and Helen Watt, an ailing historian with a love of Jewish history.
As the novel opens, Helen has been summoned by a former student to view a cache of seventeenth-century Jewish documents newly discovered in his home during a renovation. Enlisting the help of Aaron Levy, an American graduate student as impatient as he is charming, and in a race with another fast-moving team of historians, Helen embarks on one last project: to determine the identity of the documents’ scribe, the elusive “Aleph.”
Electrifying and ambitious, sweeping in scope and intimate in tone, The Weight of Ink is a sophisticated work of historical fiction about women separated by centuries, and the choices and sacrifices they must make in order reconcile the life of the heart and mind.
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