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The teacher
- Title
- The teacher / Michal Ben-Naftali ; translated from the Hebrew by Daniella Zamir.
- Author
- Ben-Naftali, Michal
- Publication
- Rochester, NY : Open Letter, 2019.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFD 20-2550 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Zamir, Daniella
- Description
- 184 pages; 22 cm
- Summary
- "No one knew the story of Elsa Weiss. She was a respected English teacher at a Tel Aviv high school, but she remained aloof and never tried to befriend her students. No one ever encountered her outside of school hours. She was a riddle, and yet the students sensed that they were all she had. When Elsa killed herself by jumping off the roof of her apartment building, she remained as unknown as she had been during her life. Thirty years later, the narrator of the novel, one of her students, decides to solve the riddle of Elsa Weiss. Expertly dovetailing explosive historical material with flights of imagination, the novel explores the impact of survivor's guilt and traces the footprints of a Holocaust survivor who did her utmost to leave no trace"--
- Subjects
- High school teachers
- Suicide victims
- Holocaust survivors
- Teacher-student relationships
- Israel
- Guilt
- Teacher-student relationships > Fiction
- Jewish Holocaust > (1939-1945)
- Tel Aviv (Israel) > Social life and customs > 20th century > Fiction
- Israel > Tel Aviv
- High school teachers > Israel > Fiction
- Guilt > Fiction
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Fiction
- 1900-1999
- Fiction
- Historical fiction
- Suicide victims > Israel > Fiction
- Holocaust survivors > Israel > Fiction
- Manners and customs
- Genre/Form
- Fiction.
- Historical fiction.
- Note
- "A novel"--Cover.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Language (note)
- In English, translated from the Hebrew.
- Call Number
- JFD 20-2550
- ISBN
- 9781948830072
- 1948830078
- OCLC
- 1135367775
- Author
- Ben-Naftali, Michal, author.
- Title
- The teacher / Michal Ben-Naftali ; translated from the Hebrew by Daniella Zamir.
- Publisher
- Rochester, NY : Open Letter, 2019.
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Language
- In English, translated from the Hebrew.
- Chronological Term
- 1900-1999
- Added Author
- Zamir, Daniella, translator.
- Research Call Number
- JFD 20-2550