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The weight of ink / Rachel Kadish.

by Kadish, Rachel.

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017.

Women historians -- Fiction.

Jewish women -- Fiction.

London (England) -- Social life and customs -- 17th century -- Fiction.

9780544866461 (hc.)

567 p. ; 24 cm.

"A novel"--Jacket.

Includes bibliographical references.

"Set in London of the 1660s and of the early twenty-first century, [this] is the interwoven tale of two women: ... 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 ... Helen has been summoned by a former student to view a cache of seventeenth-century Jewish documents newly discovered in his home during a renovation. Enlisting the help of Aaron Levy, an American graduate student as impatient as he is charming, and in a race with another fast-moving team of historians, Helen embarks on one last project: to determine the identity of the documents' scribe."--From publisher.

Historical fiction.

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