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title: "The Sacrifice of Tamar: A Novel Paperback – Picture Book, July 20, 2010"
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# The Sacrifice of Tamar: A Novel Paperback – Picture Book, July 20, 2010

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- **What is this?** The Sacrifice of Tamar: A Novel Paperback – Picture Book, July 20, 2010 by naomi ragen
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## Customer Reviews

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    A Compelling Novel About a Hidden World
  

*by B***A on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 31, 2020*

WARNING: This book deals with a rape and its aftermath. This may be a trigger for some people.Tamar is a young, pretty woman from a strict,  ultra-Orthodox Jewish community. At 21, she is married to a respected rabbi, and she is treated with affection and  deference by his congregation.  Tamar has grown up obeying all the rules of her faith, and she views her marriage and her secure life as her reward.  But one night, everything she believes is shattered. While she is watching her nephew, a strange man breaks into the apartment and brutally rapes her. Fearing that her husband and her neighbors will blame or  reject her, she does not tell anyone, nor does she call the police.  When she finds that she is pregnant, she is horrified. Will her husband divorce her for adultery? She would have no escape-because her rapist was a Black man.  The son she gives birth to is White-and grows up to be a brilliant Biblical scholar and a strikingly handsome man. When he falls in love with a girl he met in Israel, the family-which now includes two daughters-moves there to be near the young couple. Both father and son obtain good positions in the community. Everything seems wonderful until the first grandchild is born-and this child is Black.  Read the book to find out what Tamar really has to sacrifice in the end. What I have described is the bare bones of the plot. The book is rich with the fascinating customs of the Hasidic Jewish people, and it also goes back through the years to show how Tamar and two of her friends grew up in their community- and how it influenced their choices. This novel is multi-layered.  It challenges the reader to think about a lot of life's difficult questions. It's not a light read, but a moving one that lingers in the mind and heart.

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    Troubling attitudes addressed
  

*by K***R on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 9, 2019*

I am surprised by the aversion the Hasidic community, as described in this book (fiction), held towards people of dark or black skin. I understand the contempt for the rapist, but the racial disgust, even for a helpless infant, was hard to read or accept. At times, the references were so brutal that one would think black skin were freakish, like a third arm or leg, an ugly stain, a defect, a challenge that takes lessons learned to overcome; really, not unlike how Jews were perceived in Nazi Germany, and by many in Poland and the Ukraine during that tragic time. Skin colour, to me, appeared to be a greater problem for Tamar than the actual rape. Rather sad... As well, I was surprised by the preferred standard of beauty--- blond hair and blue eyes.  Interestingly, this appears to be a feature in Ragen's writings. In Sotah, the alluring protagonist was also blond, with green or blue-green eyes; her daughter, too. I do not contest this preference, as attributed to Tamar and her community. I am sure there are Jews who have very Nordic or Germanic features, just as there are Jews who are black, like the Ethiopian Jews. However,  because Jewish people are ethnically diverse, I never imagined that a religious community, many of whom were holocaust survivors, would think and spew the very racial ideology that once tormented them. I was quite startled by this possibility, and, the more I read, increasingly annoyed.  To conclude, I did not like reading this book at all. I did not even like the ending, which seemed more like resigned love than love, itself. However, it is very well-written overall and bravely attempts to address some important issues within the Hasidic community, especially for women. I respect that. In addition, the book may also be seen as a provocative reminder to all people of faith to apply their tenets, rather than merely observe them, in sincere and meaningful ways.

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    MISUNDERSTOOD OR MIS-INTERPRETED
  

*by E***R on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 25, 2014*

Oh the restrictions that religion brings upon us!  Naomi Ragen, as always, brings us to the point where we must question at what point the Torah is correct or not correct.  I am frum and my heart just breaks for all the frummas out there who are under question by their communities.  If Hadassah's father (The Rebbe) understood that his daughter was a bad influence on the other girls, then I believe he would have understood Tamar's predicament and would have done what should have been right by her.  Once again, another good read by Naomi Ragen.

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