num_pages: 378
description: Mazel means luck in Yiddish, and luck is the guiding force in this magical and mesmerizing novel that spans three generations. Sasha Saunders is the daughter of a Polish rabbi who abandons the shtetl and wins renown as a Yiddish actress in Warsaw and New York. Her daughter Chloe becomes a professor of classics at Columbia. Chloe’s daughter Phoebe grows up to become a mathematician who is drawn to traditional Judaism and the sort of domestic life her mother and grandmother rejected.
language: English
title: Mazel
titlecomplete: Mazel
genres: Judaism, Literature, American, Judaica, Religion, Holocaust, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Jewish, Contemporary
ratings_count: 336
awards: awardedAt: 788947200000
name: Edward Lewis Wallant Award, awardedAt: 788947200000
name: National Jewish Book Award
category: Fiction
publisher: University of Wisconsin Press