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On Christmas Eve 1999, all the Jews in the world die in a strange, millennial plague, with the exception of the firstborn males, who are soon adopted by a cabal of powerful people in the American government.
By the following Passover, however, only one is still alive: Benjamin Israelien; a kindly, innocent, ignorant man-child.
As he finds himself transformed into an international superstar, Jewishness becomes all the rage: matzo-ball soup is in every bowl, sidelocks are hip; and the only truly Jewish Jew left is increasingly stigmatized for not being religious.
Since his very existence exposes the illegitimacy of the newly converted, Israelien becomes the object of a worldwide hunt…Meanwhile, in the not-too-distant future of our own, “real” world, another last Jew—the last living Holocaust survivor—sits alone in a snowbound Manhattan, providing a final melancholy witness to his experiences in the form of the punch lines to half-remembered jokes.
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- Pages:817 pages
- Publisher:Dalkey Archive Press
- Publication Date:24/06/2010
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- ISBN:9781564785886
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- Pages:817 pages
- Publisher:Dalkey Archive Press
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- ISBN:9781564785886
