Day After Night (2009) (edit title/settings)

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Characters/People edit see section history

• Leonie: Parisian beauty
• Shayndel: Polish Zionist
• Zorah: Concentration camp survivor
• Tedi: Hidden Dutch Jew
• Tirzah: Add a description of this character.
• Esther
• Aliza
• Nathan
• Jacob
• Bryce
• Lotte
• Hannah
• David
• Danny
• Goldberg
• Arik
• Elka
• Wolfe
• Meyer
• Malka
• Yitzhak
• Gordon
• Lillian
• Uri
• Applebaum
• Rachel
• Beit Oren
• Claudette Colbert
• Bob
• Bracha
• Mama
• Mrs. Friedman
• Madame Clos
• Nina
• Francek
• Lucas
• Anschel
• Mr. Loederman

Quotes edit see section history

• “She had seen the broken and the doomed find consolation in their devotions, and a kind of peace. She knew that God had nothing to do with it. God was a pretext, or a metaphor, or a strategy. But sometime that was enough.”

  Zorah

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• in 1917, the English foreign secretary, Balfour, wrote a letter that promised the Jews a homeland in Palestine. It was a promise that they went back on in 1939, when they put handcuffs on Jewish immigration with a document called the White Paper.”

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• “So in order to live, we must annihilate the past? Then what about your parents? Aren’t you responsible for their memories? If you don’t speak of them, it’s like you kill them all over again.”

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• “Weeping is terrible for the complexion,” said Leonie, holding Shayndel close, “but it is very good for the heart.”

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• She knew they were reluctant to tell their own stories because all of them began and ended with the same horrible question: Why was I spared?

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• Sometimes “luck” was just another word for “creation,” which was as relentless as destruction.

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• She knew that God had nothing to do with it. God was a pretext, or a metaphor, or a strategy. But sometimes that was enough.

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• Leonie was certain that the people everyone else called insane really needed nothing but time, rest, and patience so that their private poisons could settle and dilute. The result might not be happiness or contentment, she knew. But after a while, rage might mellow to surliness, and catatonia settle into mere stiffness, no more threatening than a limp. Eventually, eccentricity would be forgiven as a sad souvenir from a terrible time, perfectly understandable, even normal, given the circumstances.

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• “Our plan? That was more like a game, a nice little story we told each other,” Leonie said. “Making plans is a game. Life chooses for you.”

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• Leonie imagined Lucas’s face under her hands. Tedi throttled the men who had raped her. Zorah killed the neighbor who betrayed Jacob’s mother. Shayndel felt the muscles in her arms shaking with exertion, avenging Wolfe, Malka, Noah, her mother and father, Shmuley, and far too many others.

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• For Tedi, memory was the enemy of happiness. She had already forgotten the name of the ship that had brought her to Palestine and of the stocky Greek boy who had held her shoulders while she retched, seasick, into a bucket. She wondered if she could fill her head with enough Hebrew to crowd out her native Dutch.

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Setting & Locations edit see section history

• Atlit
• Palestine
• Haifa
• Poland
• Tel Aviv
• Eretz Yisrael
• Europe
• Amsterdam
• Paris
• Jerusalem
• Germany
• Auschwitz
• Warsaw
• Yishuv

Organizations edit see section history

• Haganah: The Jewish underground militia in Palestine.
• Palmach: Special force of the Haganah, which organized the liberation effort at Atlit.

First Sentence edit see section history

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Anita Diamant (Author)

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Classification edit see section history

• Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
• Dewey: 813.54

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Subjects edit see section history

• Books › Literature & Fiction › Genre Fiction › Historical
• Books › Literature & Fiction › Contemporary
• Books › Literature & Fiction › Genre Fiction › Historical
• Books › Literature & Fiction › World Literature › Jewish

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