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Rarely do I come upon a book that is readable, lyrical,charming, and an example of good literature. Rosenbaum's book is one. Her novel will not be a challenge for the average reader. Yet, the strong reader will be able to enjoy the lyrical language and the various levels of meaning the book offers. We meet Itzik the patriarch, Nathan, the very assimilated American born Jew, Ellen, Nathan's daughter, Friedl, a spirit who can find no rest, Rafael, the last Jew in Zokof, and Marek, Ellen's Klezmer playing Polish boyfriend. The story opens with Itzik fleeing from Zocof after breaking Friedl's tombstone and ends with an attempt to reconcile Poland's terrible history of anti-semitism and its Jewish heritage through art. The author uses techniques of magical realism, Jewish mysticism, character soul searching, Yiddish cadences, Yiddish phrases and romance to take the reader on a wild ride. Friedl's spirit cannot rest until she fulfills the prophecy inherited by all Jewish women. She must pass down Jewish traditions and history to the next generation. With the ghost as a literary device the author reveals the importance of passing on one's history and especially an ethnic history to the next generation. So many immigrants tried to abolish their ethnicities upon landing on these shores. So much history was lost as recent immigrants tried to become "real Americans." With this novel the author is telling us that our immigrant histories are part of the American experience. As such they should be treasured and revered. I did not want this book to end. It is both an immigrant story and a holocaust story. It is a tale both of scholarship and performance, of curse and redemption. To call it a ghost story is an oversimplification of the role played by Friedl's spirit.


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A Day of Small Beginnings A Novel Lisa Pearl Rosenbaum Books Reviews

If you like reading multi-generational historic novels, you will love A Day of Small Beginnings. Set in Poland and the United States, the story begins with a heroic act by a young teenager. The results of this act change the lives of generations past and present. The plot unfolds as a beautiful song's refrain hangs in the background binding the characters together. I recommend this book to married women as it contains some sexual encounters by one of the contemporary characters.
It was a well written story, sometimes slow and repetitive, and you have to keep your imagination open to
the possiblities of "ghosts" or "angels". I enjoyed reading it, and would try another book by the same author.
LOVED this book. And I dont read much. I would put it up there with "Bee Season" by Myla Goldberg. A very, very riveting and powerful book.
Myth and Reality woven together in a remarkable first novel about a life that begins in the Ukraine during the War and ends in the Ukrainian Village in Chicago. Beautifully written, the characters elegantly portrayed, we see how folk myths shape the lives of the people we meet. It also portrays the psyche of Holocaust survivors, who are afraid to share their fearful memories until children, and often grandchildren, convince them of the importance of those memories for the following generations. The release, the freedom to move on when one unburdens the self of those painful times, is very artistically expressed.
I live in Oregon now and lived in New Mexico for many years but I grew up in New Jersey. I also took a class called "history of the Jews in Poland" many years ago. This book was like a sequel to that. It is about modern Poland as much as it is about the twentieth century Jewish experience. Fascinating, moving, very well done.
A sensitive and beautifully written book. I'm recommending it to all m friends.
My mother recommended this book. Said she couldn't put it down, so I bought a copy. I struggled a bit with the first chapter, but once the story got going I really got pulled in and also found that I couldn't put it down.

Maybe it helps to say that my father's family came from northern Poland, that I am the president of a landsmanschaft (organization of Jews who came from that particular area) and an amateur Jewish genealogist, and also administer the cemeteries for my landsmanschaft, so this story struck many personal chords for me.

It is very well written for a first novel, well produced, richly imagined. At times the dialogue becomes heavily didactic, but not so much as to detract from the overall thrust of the story.
Rarely do I come upon a book that is readable, lyrical,charming, and an example of good literature. Rosenbaum's book is one. Her novel will not be a challenge for the average reader. Yet, the strong reader will be able to enjoy the lyrical language and the various levels of meaning the book offers. We meet Itzik the patriarch, Nathan, the very assimilated American born Jew, Ellen, Nathan's daughter, Friedl, a spirit who can find no rest, Rafael, the last Jew in Zokof, and Marek, Ellen's Klezmer playing Polish boyfriend. The story opens with Itzik fleeing from Zocof after breaking Friedl's tombstone and ends with an attempt to reconcile Poland's terrible history of anti-semitism and its Jewish heritage through art. The author uses techniques of magical realism, Jewish mysticism, character soul searching, Yiddish cadences, Yiddish phrases and romance to take the reader on a wild ride. Friedl's spirit cannot rest until she fulfills the prophecy inherited by all Jewish women. She must pass down Jewish traditions and history to the next generation. With the ghost as a literary device the author reveals the importance of passing on one's history and especially an ethnic history to the next generation. So many immigrants tried to abolish their ethnicities upon landing on these shores. So much history was lost as recent immigrants tried to become "real Americans." With this novel the author is telling us that our immigrant histories are part of the American experience. As such they should be treasured and revered. I did not want this book to end. It is both an immigrant story and a holocaust story. It is a tale both of scholarship and performance, of curse and redemption. To call it a ghost story is an oversimplification of the role played by Friedl's spirit.