num_pages: 244
description: David Bendiner, a young writer and secularized Jew, has qualified to emigrate from Warsaw to Palestine, but he's broke, and in order to make the journey, he must enter into a fictitious marriage with a prosperous woman eager to get there. Grappling with romantic, political and philosophical turmoil, David must also confront his faith when his father, an Orthodox rabbi, shows up in Warsaw.
language: English
title: The Certificate: A Novel
titlecomplete: The Certificate: A Novel
genres: Classics, Nobel Prize, Jewish, Novels, Literature, Fiction
ratings_count: 367
publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux