Joie Davidow
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Anything But Yes: A Novel of Anna Del Monte, Jewish… door Joie Davidow
Deze bespreking is geschreven voor LibraryThing Vroege Recensenten.This was a fascinating story of Jewish life in Italy and the strength of the Catholic Church to try to knock out their faith while taking advantage of everything they could for their financial gain. A young girl gets caught up in the efforts of nuns to break her of her Jewish faith.
I'm really glad i read this! i was so excited for it to come out. This was a hard read emotionally, as it should have been. It was intentionally repetitive and bleak when it wasn't absolutely horrifying, as it should have been. I was absorbed every page, and just immediately transported to medieval Italy. There were times I wanted to cry but was far too tense for that. I was surprised at the end and still trying to articulate my feelings. I'm so glad this was written and I hope it's widely read.
Deze bespreking is geschreven voor LibraryThing Vroege Recensenten.*I received a copy of this book through LibraryThing Early Reviewers.*
I both liked this book and wanted more from it. This is the story of Anna del Monte, a young Jewish woman, who was kidnapped from her home in the eighteenth-century Jewish ghetto and taken to a convent where she was forcefully urged to convert to Christianity. Based on Anna's own writings about the experience, this novel is filled with details about how this kind of situation could emerge in 18th-century Rome and the tense undertones of interactions between the Jewish and Catholic communities. While this tale comes to a somewhat happy conclusion, I wished for more for Anna and her family, especially after their ordeals.… (meer)
I both liked this book and wanted more from it. This is the story of Anna del Monte, a young Jewish woman, who was kidnapped from her home in the eighteenth-century Jewish ghetto and taken to a convent where she was forcefully urged to convert to Christianity. Based on Anna's own writings about the experience, this novel is filled with details about how this kind of situation could emerge in 18th-century Rome and the tense undertones of interactions between the Jewish and Catholic communities. While this tale comes to a somewhat happy conclusion, I wished for more for Anna and her family, especially after their ordeals.… (meer)
Deze bespreking is geschreven voor LibraryThing Vroege Recensenten.Anything But Yes is Joie Davidow's novelization of the 1749 account by Anna Del Monte, a Roman Jew, of her 13-day incarceration in the Casa dei Catecumeni.
Anna, an educated, unmarried daughter of a prominent and wealthy family in Rome's Jewish ghetto, is taken by force from her home. She is confined to a small cell, where she is subjected to isolation, sleep and food deprivation, and endless talking from various priests and nuns, trying to convert her to Christianity. If she said the word "yes" in any circumstance, it would be taken as an agreement to convert - which meant she would never see her beloved family again - hence the title of the book. Anna is ultimately released when it is determined a young male convert, trying to get back at her family, falsely claimed she was his bride-to-be.
Anna's account was edited by her brother Tranquillo in 1793, after Anna's death. He made seven copies, with one rediscovered almost 200 years later in a private collection in Jerusalem, by Italian scholar Giuseppe Sermoneta. Sermoneta published an annotated edition,/a> in Italian in 1989, which was Davidow's inspiration, according to her afterword (p. 226 in my advance reader edition).
In 2016, scholar Kenneth R. Stow published an English translation of Anna'a account as part of his book, Anna and Tranquillo (which was also one of Davidow's sources). Even with numerous footnotes, Anna's account only runs 34 pages. Most of it can be read in Google Books (starting on page 20), and other parts are available in the transcripts of Accessing Anna, an "audio reconstruction" of Anna's experiences by Ariana Ellis.
Based on these latter two sources, I feel Davidow is very true to the original material. She has added depth and breadth from her own research (sources listed in the acknowledgments), with descriptions of life in the Roman Jewish ghetto in that era, and by developing the characters of Anna and her family members. The book is well-written and fascinating. There's a glossary of Hebrew, Italian, and ghetto dialect words at the end of the book, but I found I could interpret most meanings from the context.… (meer)
Anna, an educated, unmarried daughter of a prominent and wealthy family in Rome's Jewish ghetto, is taken by force from her home. She is confined to a small cell, where she is subjected to isolation, sleep and food deprivation, and endless talking from various priests and nuns, trying to convert her to Christianity. If she said the word "yes" in any circumstance, it would be taken as an agreement to convert - which meant she would never see her beloved family again - hence the title of the book. Anna is ultimately released when it is determined a young male convert, trying to get back at her family, falsely claimed she was his bride-to-be.
Anna's account was edited by her brother Tranquillo in 1793, after Anna's death. He made seven copies, with one rediscovered almost 200 years later in a private collection in Jerusalem, by Italian scholar Giuseppe Sermoneta. Sermoneta published an annotated edition,/a> in Italian in 1989, which was Davidow's inspiration, according to her afterword (p. 226 in my advance reader edition).
In 2016, scholar Kenneth R. Stow published an English translation of Anna'a account as part of his book, Anna and Tranquillo (which was also one of Davidow's sources). Even with numerous footnotes, Anna's account only runs 34 pages. Most of it can be read in Google Books (starting on page 20), and other parts are available in the transcripts of Accessing Anna, an "audio reconstruction" of Anna's experiences by Ariana Ellis.
Based on these latter two sources, I feel Davidow is very true to the original material. She has added depth and breadth from her own research (sources listed in the acknowledgments), with descriptions of life in the Roman Jewish ghetto in that era, and by developing the characters of Anna and her family members. The book is well-written and fascinating. There's a glossary of Hebrew, Italian, and ghetto dialect words at the end of the book, but I found I could interpret most meanings from the context.… (meer)
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