Elizabeth Graver

The Festival

Location: Lahn Social Hall

Kantika. A Novel

The sto­ry of Kan­ti­ka, based on the life of Graver’s grand­moth­er spans five decades. While mod­ern Jews every­where are suf­fer­ing because of the two World Wars, it’s also a peri­od of great upheaval for Sephardic Jews in Islam­ic lands — in this case, Turkey. Through the spe­cif­ic expe­ri­ences of the Cohen/ Levy fam­i­ly, we learn about the tri­als and tribu­la­tions shared by this gen­er­a­tion of Jews: emi­gra­tion and immi­gra­tion, loss, nos­tal­gia, sep­a­ra­tion from fam­i­ly, war, and finan­cial loss and inse­cu­ri­ty. But we also bear wit­ness to the inti­mate and small joys that are found in dai­ly liv­ing, faith, work, friend­ship, and life-cycle events.

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