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Davita's Harp

Chaim Potok

Paperback | Pages: 371 pages

Rating: 3.99 | 5500 Users | 368 Reviews

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Original Title:	Davita's Harp
ISBN:	0449911837 (ISBN13: 9780449911839)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	New York State(United States)

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For Davita Chandal, growing up in the New York of the 1930s and '40s is an experience of joy and sadness. Her loving parents, both fervent radicals, fill her with the fiercely bright hope of a new and better world. But as the deprivations of war and depression take a ruthless toll, Davita unexpectedly turns to the Jewish faith that her mother had long ago abandoned, finding there both a solace for her questioning inner pain and a test of her budding spirit of independence.


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Title	:	Davita's Harp
Author	:	Chaim Potok
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 371 pages
Published	:	August 27th 1996 by Ballantine Books (first published 1985)
Categories	:	Fiction. Literature. Jewish. Historical. Historical Fiction. Religion. Judaism. Classics

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Ratings: 3.99 From 5500 Users | 368 Reviews

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This book I read within days after I finished Asher Lev. Chaim Potok has become somewhat of an obsession in our house hold ever since James Moes got me to read Asher Lev. Davita's Harp had me even more hooked than Asher Lev did. At first I was wondering if the stories were going to entwine because of the setting and time, because of the age of the characters and both Davita's and Asher's similarly unique ways of thinking and speaking. Obviously Potok has found a brilliant way to portray the

The author's nuanced ability to get into the mind of an adolescent girl struggling with reconciling her parent's communist views with the Judaism of her community is amazing. The struggles she goes through are so poignant and well written.

Ilana Davita Chandal, the daughter of a nonbelieving Jewish mother and nonbelieving Christian father grows up in New York in the years before (and during) WWII. Both of her parents are active radicals. Her life is changed when her reporter father goes to Spain to write on the Civil War there. As she asks questions and searches for what to believe, she turns to the Jewish faith. The title comes from a wooden harp which hangs on the door everywhere they live. The harp sings whenever the door is



When we meet Ilana Davita she is around 8 years old, in the late 1930s. She lives in New York City with her writer-activist parents in a non-religious household. The subject for which her parents have nearly radical zeal is, we learn through Davita's listening in to conversations and nightly meetings, communism. Her parent's decisions and activism, their friends and political struggles lie at the heart of Davita's young life - they move frequently and her nights are spent in a strange dream of

One of my favorite re-reads.

This is a beautiful story of a young girl growing up in the 1930's. Davita's parents are activists in the communist party in America. The book explores some ideas on the importance of religion and history and finding what is important to you. It is also just a wonderful story of a child growing up.