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Tuesday, August 21, 2018 • 10 Elul 5778
7:30 PM - 9:00 PMVicki Hendin's home
Our next selection for discussion will be Naomi Alderman's Disobedience. We will meet Tuesday August 21, at Vicki Hendin's home. We try to begin our discussion promptly at 7:30 PM, so please arrive a little early.
Disobedience is the debut novel of Naomi Alderman (The Liar's Gospel, and The Power). It won the Orange Prize for Fiction and was a Sammy Rohr Prize finalist. It is also the source for the recent film by the same name. In Disobedience, Alderman tells the story of a young woman who has left behind her ultra-Orthodox upbringing, and the distinguished rabbinical family she was a part of, to seek happiness and fulfillment elsewhere. Many novels of disobedience in Jewish literature, from the beginning of the modern period on, paint the world left behind in largely—or entirely— unsympathetic terms. When the main character is forced, by circumstance, to return to that world, one of Alderman’s achievements is to complicate that picture by rendering it in subtle shades, and its inhabitants as real people, not caricatures. Alderman’s abilities are by no means limited to ethnography, though through a series of surprising developments, she explores how and whether change can come to a world that prides itself on holding fast against change. And how her characters’ various disobediences are themselves, if not necessary, seemingly inevitable.
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