The Weight of Ink - Rachel Kadish Ilya schor This gripping

This gripping

they rush to town for milk to make her better

ferociously funny story of an art teacher

Hédi Fried was nineteen when the Nazis snatched her family from their home in Eastern Europe and transported them to Auschwitz

Penguin 2001

The Weight of Ink - Rachel Kadish Ilya schor This grippingWinner of a National Jewish Book Award A USA Today Bestseller Set in London of the 1660s and of the early twenty first century, The Weight of Ink is the interwoven tale of two women of remarkable intellect: Ester Velasquez, an emigrant from Amsterdam who is permitted to scribe for a blind rabbi, just before the plague hits the city; and Helen Watt, an ailing historian with a love of Jewish history. When Helen is summoned by a former student to view a