It began like any other Passover Seder

It began like any other Passover Seder....

Hannah moved toward the front door. She certainly didn't believe that the prophet Elijah would come through the apartment door any more than she believed Darth Voder or Robin Hood would. No one believed those superstitions anymore.

Glancing over her shoulder, Hannah saw her family were all watching her intently. Aaron bounced up and down on his chair.

"Open it, Hannah!" he called out loudly. "Open it for Elijah!"

Flinging the door open wide, she whispered, "Ready or not, here I c..."

Outside, where there should have been a long, windowless hall with dark green numbered doors leading into other apartments, there was a greening field and a lowering sky. The moon hung ripely between two heavy gray clouds. And across the field marched a shadowy figure. He had a shapeless cap on his head, a hoe over his shoulder, and he was singing. . . .

*"Yolen does a fine job of illustrating the importance of remembering." --School Library Journal, starred review

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The Devil's Arithmetic

by Jane Yolen

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Yolen, Jane. The devil's arithmetic / by Jane Yolen. p. cm. Summary: Hannah resents the traditions of her Jewish heritage

until time travel places her in the middle of a small Jewish village in Nazi-occupied Poland. ' ISBN 0-14-034535-3

[1. Jews--Fiction. 2. Concentration camps--Fiction. 3. Time travel--Fiction.] I. Title.

[PZ7.Y78De 1990] [He]--dc20 90-33007

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Except in the United1 States of America, this book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent,

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imposed on the subsequent purchaser.

To my Yoleri grandparents, who brought their family over in the early 1900s, second class, not steerage, and to my Berlin grandparents, who came over close to that same

time and settled in Virginia. We were the lucky ones. This book is a memorial for

those who were not.

And for my daughter, Heidi Elisabet Stempie, whose Hebrew name is Chaya--pronounced with the guttural ch as HT-y&-- which means life.

And with special thanks to Barbara Goldin and Deborah Brodie, who were able to ask questions of survivors that I was unable to ask and pass those devastating answers dn to me.

The Devil's Arithmetic

J

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