Aaron the Jew is, among other things, an anti-conversion novel, but
it's of a startling sort. The plot hinges on a baby switch. (No,
that's not why it's startling.) To avoid financial disaster, Aaron
Cohen, an Orthodox Jew, agrees to raise a Christian child born out
of wedlock. (The mother had been forced to give the baby up as part
of a deal with a would-be husband. It's a sign of the Victorian
times that the novel is not only sympathetic to the mother, but
eventually lets her prosper.) But Aaron's own child, born at nearly
the same time, dies suddenly, and fearing that the shock could kill
his wife, Aaron passes off the baby girl as their own. (Mrs. Cohen
is blind, which enables the switch.) Flash forward many years. The
girl in question, Ruth, has been raised as a Jew...but refuses to
embrace the faith.
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