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Rembrandt's Model
Overview
Ternar draws upon the turbulent history of Sephardic Jews in seventeenth-century Amsterdam, the artistic preoccupations with the elderly Remnbrandt and the controversial convictions of the false messiah of Smyrna to create an entrancing tale. The central character of the novel, Samuel, is the man with his back to the viewer at the center of a Rembrandt etching that depicts a group of Jewish men conversing in front of a synagogue. Ternar's expansive novel gives Samuel a face and a life history.
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9781550651010
- ISBN-10: 1550651013
- Publisher: Vehicule Press
- Publish Date: January 1998
- Dimensions: 8.49 x 5.53 x 0.41 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.57 pounds
- Page Count: 176
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