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Original Title:	Davita's Harp
ISBN:	0449911837 (ISBN13: 9780449911839)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	New York State(United States)

Davita's Harp

Chaim Potok

Paperback | Pages: 371 pages

Rating: 3.99 | 5500 Users | 368 Reviews

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For Davita Chandal, growing up in the New York of the 1930s and '40s is an experience of joy and sadness. Her loving parents, both fervent radicals, fill her with the fiercely bright hope of a new and better world. But as the deprivations of war and depression take a ruthless toll, Davita unexpectedly turns to the Jewish faith that her mother had long ago abandoned, finding there both a solace for her questioning inner pain and a test of her budding spirit of independence.


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Title	:	Davita's Harp
Author	:	Chaim Potok
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 371 pages
Published	:	August 27th 1996 by Ballantine Books (first published 1985)
Categories	:	Fiction. Literature. Jewish. Historical. Historical Fiction. Religion. Judaism. Classics

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Ratings: 3.99 From 5500 Users | 368 Reviews

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I enjoyed most of this book, with the exception of a few distasteful scenes, and those scenes pulled my rating of the book down. That and the fact that character ages so infrequently! She's 9 for FOREVER! I think some of the ideas he was wrestling with were too complicated for a 9-year-old or she was the brightest 9-year-old ever. Still, I have heard too many good things about this author, so I will try another novel in the future.

This is a beautiful story of a young girl growing up in the 1930's. Davita's parents are activists in the communist party in America. The book explores some ideas on the importance of religion and history and finding what is important to you. It is also just a wonderful story of a child growing up.

Perhaps I really like coming of age stories, but this is one of my favorite books. I would never have read it, or maybe any Potok, had not someone in my book club chosen it. Interesting that many of the women give it higher reviews than the men, but as a man, I found it also touched my heart. I thought the evocation of the 30's, the Spanish Civil War, the somewhat "naive" leftist/Communist idealism of that time were all very well portrayed. The struggle to come to terms with spirituality and

This is a moving, haunting, and occasionally ambiguous novel that is ultimately about the value of sacred discontent. At first it may seem as if the message is that religion is an opiate of the people, soothing them and comforting them and preventing them from confronting the naked evil of the world, but that is not the thrust of the novel. The characters in Potok's story reminded me that if religion is a crutch, it is far from the only one. Potok made me recall Herman Wouk's assertion that

Potok's use of recurrent images borders on overt symbolism, and yet retains an internal coherence beyond that of religious iconography or surrealist leaps by having his narrators tell you exactly what the images mean. This is probably what makes Davita's Harp a childrens' book, even thought it explicitly and graphically addresses child abuse, rape, mutilation, murder, and warfare. A 'story within a story' conceit allows the close, first-person narrator to recall images that her storyteller

As I write this review the REM song Losing My Religion is on the tv, which is apt as that's one of the themes of this complicated, melancholic novel. Ilana Davita is growing up in New York in the 1930s and the 1940s. Both parents, Hannah and Michael, are ardent communists. Communism has replaced the religions of their childhood - The Eastern European Hasidism of Ilana's mother, and the New England Episcopalian life of her father. Both parents are haunted by cruel childhood events, which they

What a beautifully written story. Normally I wouldnt have time for girls coming of age tales written by men but this has a sensitivity that makes it bearable. It takes place in a community and a time that is fraught with conflict. All beliefs are challenged and ultimately proven flawed. Who can argue with that?