What happens when a 19th Century rabbi, who has been preserved in ice,suddenly is defrosted and finds himselfin the 21st Century? In this madcap,extremely entertainingnovel,we not only find out the answer to that question,butwe also gain an insight into life in a Jewish "shtetl" in the 19th Cen...
With his novel, Steve Stern takes us on a journey through the history of Jewish diaspora. In the 19th century, a Hasidic rabbi is (literally) turning into a block of ice during his meditating in a pond nearby a progrom-ridden shtetl in Poland, found later and being passed down in the Karp family ...