Sidra Noach

The great flood of August 2002 forces the Jewish residents of Prague's old Jewish Town out of their homes, and ten men, just enough for a minyan, end up together in Mr Reich's Jewish guesthouse in Vinohrady. The youngest is fifteen, the oldest eighty, and they come from very different walks of life. To pass the long hours they tell stories and remember, and through their tales, bitter but often very funny, the senseless cruelty of the regimes that persecuted Jews in the last century come back to life. The title names the Torah portion about Noah that is read on the Sabbath.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

381 pages in the original

Genres

Historical (assigned by AI)

Set in

Czechia, 2002

First published

2010 by Knižní klub

Author's age

63 when first published

ISBN

9788024227542 (original)