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We have all fantasized about inheriting great wealth, but what is
the burden if the inheritance is a rare family legacy-a hand
written Torah? The Nine Inheritors tells the intimate life stories
of nine heirs and how the Torah challenges them in unexpected ways.
In The Nine Inheritors, Datnow recreates the worlds of our
forefathers and of contemporary America. We follow the Torah and it
inheritors from its "birth" in Jerusalem in the last decade of the
eighteenth century, to a humble Lithuanian shtetl and then from New
York City to the xenophobic South, from the top secret Manhattan
Project at Los Alamos to burgeoning Silicon Valley, and from the
colorful Jewish community of Mexico City to the struggling
Palestinian State of the twenty-first century. All the while the
Torah's fate hangs in the balance miraculously surviving
catastrophic events, until Neta Rosen, the eighth inheritor,
accidentally desecrates it. In a surprising climax Samuel, the
ninth inheritor, resurrects the Torah-and himself-in his own
remarkable fashion. Readers of all persuasions can readily relate
to The Nine Inheritors; a fascinating story encompassing the
history of modern Jewry and in many ways serves as a microcosm of
the culture's trials and endurance
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