Pooh And The Karaites

From: The New York Jewish Week | Date: September 10, 2004 | Copyright information

Cynthia Ozick's much-awaited novel, "Heir to the Glimmering World" (Houghton Mifflin) is narrated by Rose Meadows, an 18-year-old orphan hired to work for a family of German refugees who move to the northeast corner of the Bronx. She is to be the secretary to Professor Rudolf Mitwisser, a scholar of the Karaites, a medieval Jewish sect of scriptural sticklers to literal meaning. The bookish Rose is also caretaker to his ailing wife, a professor thrown out of her Institute by the Nazis, and to...

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