Steven Benveniste Nemirovsky
September 29, 2022
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Dayenu, a Depression-era love story, crosses oceans, centuries, and generations. Set in Atlanta, Turkey, and Rhodes, it describes ambition and the immigrant experience; heritage and traditions; longing, love, and loss. Part memoir, part fiction, Dayenu explores the frustrations we face in life and relationships, where reality seldom matches expectations. Two Spanish Jews—Yakov Reina, an energetic Turkish immigrant, and Malka Moreno, a nineteen-year-old dreamer and first-generation American—live in Atlanta during the 1930s, bound by chemistry and cultural roots. The Sephardic culture is a time machine into fifteenth-century Spain, when persecuted Jews fled Inquisition horrors, wandering the globe in search of freedom. These characters are their descendants.
The book was published in 2021 and is available at our Giftshop Page
About the Author:
Born in 1942, Jeanie Franco Marx grew up in the Atlanta Jewish community and Or VeShalom synagogue. She has been a journalist, English teacher, and college instructor, but her most-important job is wife, mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother. A graduate of Oglethorpe University, she has an MA in English from UCLA.
Rhodes Jewish Historical Foundation
