Snow in August
Book description
This book is . . . a survey history of medicine from the earliest times, centered thematically on how changing concepts of disease have affected its management. . . . One finds a gratifying mastery of recent as well as classic scholarship in medical history and a careful sidestepping of…
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1 author picked Snow in August as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
This book was published over fifteen years ago, but a friend of mine told me I’d love it…and I did. It’s set in a blue-collar Brooklyn neighborhood in 1947.
It’s the touching story of two vivid characters. An eleven-year-old Irish Catholic kid named Michael Devlin and a Rabbi from Prague. A refugee named Judah Hirsch. The rabbi hires Michael to be a Shabbos Goy. He shows up on Saturdays to turn on the lights and other things prohibited by Jewish law on the Sabbath. They forge an unlikely friendship as Michael learns about Prague and its destruction by the Nazis…
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