Tagged: David de Wolf

May 29, 2023

A deep novel with crash courses: Thoughts on “Ephraim’s Bones” by David de Wolf

Can you imagine a whole college semester packed into a novel? If you read deeply enough–and motivated enough–that’s what you get in “Ephraim’s Bones” by David de Wolf. There is enough material in it...

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March 9, 2023

Ephraim’s Bones by David de Wolf

Joseph Lichtman, a young man from Frankfurt, is determined to escape the culture of the ghetto, still dominant fifty years after Napoleon. Dramatically, he not only leaves his family, but also steps back from...