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A historical novel from the scholar whose popular Torah study group inspired Bill Moyer's Genesis series.
The year is 1031. Karimah, a charming, headstrong 19-year-old, has left her Jewish family in Egypt to follow her heart on an adventure that will take her far from home. It is a story of adventure — full of caravans, pirates and brigands, a tale of love, loss, and friendship, of youth turning to maturity. It is a story conveyed through letters: those Karimah sends, those that she receives, and some of the most poignant from those whose lives she has changed forever. The voices of the correspondents — sister and brother, father and rabbi — echo with tales from the Arabian Nights and the Babylonian Talmud.
Underlying this compelling story are the historical realities of the 11th century world as revealed through the Cairo Geniza, the synagogue storeroom whose millenium-old collection of manuscripts, letters and business documents have been a rich resource for Jewish scholars since its discovery a century ago.
A professor at the Jewish Theological Seminary, author Burton Visotzky has written monographs concerning Midrash manuscripts found in the Geniza.
Now, with his first novel, he imagines that the Geniza letters which opened a window onto history, also granted us an intimate look at the human heart.
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