She sinks into a deep coma-like sleep and has an out-of-body experience. Yente eats the paper on which the charm is written. Elisha makes a mystical charm to delay her death long enough so as not to ruin the celebrations. Asher believes that she may die close to the date of the wedding. An elderly woman named Yente is brought to the wedding but falls sick. During his frequent visits to the Shorr house, he notices that they are preparing for a wedding. He considers himself separate from the other Jewish people in the town. Chmielowski and Druzbacka begin a decades-long correspondence in which they discuss the nuances of writing and language, as well as their personal lives.Īsher Rubin is a Jewish doctor who studied in Italy and now lives in Rohatyn. Later, Chmielowski meets Elzbieta Druzbacka, who is traveling with a noblewoman named Katarzyna Kossakowska.
In the Polish town of Rohatyn in 1752, a Christian priest and author named Father Chmielowski visits a Rabbi named Elisha Shorr to borrow a book to aid his composition of an encyclopedia named New Athens.
This decision is intended to echo the pagination and reading styles of texts written in Hebrew.Ĭontent Warning: The source material occasionally deals with issues such as sexual violence, violence, and religious persecution. This guide also follows the author’s stylistic choice of numbering the pages in reverse, beginning on page 892 and ending on page 27. This guide uses the print version of the 2021 Fitzcarraldo edition, translated by Jennifer Croft.
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