But when Johanna travels to Israel on a class project in 1995, she finds out that the Lewin family originally owned the store. Her grandfather founded it and built it up with his own hands at least that’s the family legend. Johanna’s family owns the largest clothing store in town. This fascinating historical novel has been beautifully translated by Brian Murdoch, whose afterword gives readers a meaningful perspective on the difficult relations between Christians and Jews during that period. Will Jessica follow her desires, even if it means leaving behind everyone she loves, and abandoning her religion? Will her father, Shylock, survive this betrayal?Mirjam Pressler cleverly expands upon Shakespeare’s play The Merchant of Venice, offering a richly complex portrait of life in sixteenth century Venice. There is one painful condition, however: She must convert to Christianity. Then, by chance she meets a handsome aristocrat named Lorenzo who has, it seems, everything that Jessica longs for, and who promises to make her his wife. But during her rare walks through the main streets of Venice, she has caught glimpses of the colorful, exciting world outside. S-Recommended for senior high school students.As the beautiful daughter of a wealthy moneylender, Jessica leads a relatively privileged life in the Jewish Ghetto. Sexual descriptions inappropriate for younger YA readers. The tone of the narrative is different from theĪmerican YA novel, but the themes of family loyalty and personal The issues modern Germans are dealing with as they come to terms with This story, written by a German author, gives a poignant picture of Memory of that threatens her relationship with her boyfriend.
The grandson of the Jewish woman whose family owned the store and the Her trip to Israel and encounters there change the way that Store was taken illegally from its Jewish owners by Johanna's Nazi Handed down to his son, or so she has been told.
The store was purchased by her grandfather during the war years and The rightful owners of the large department store her father now runs. Visiting women who had once been students in the private school sheĪttends, she was verbally attacked by a woman claiming to be related to German high school student Johanna Riemenschneider returns from aĬommunity service project in Israel feeling very unsettled. Let sleeping dogs lie." The Free Library.
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