num_pages: 500
description: A scholar, returning to her family home in Jerusalem becomes embroiled in a family dispute over a discovered Codex, brought home originally her great-great grandfather. Set against the backdrop of a hundred and thirty years of change, this is a novel of exile and belonging, displacement and the quest for both love and a true promised land.
language: English
title: The Genizah At The House Of Shepher
titlecomplete: The Genizah At The House Of Shepher
genres: Fiction, Judaica, Religion, Israel, Historical Fiction, Judaism, Adult, Jewish, Novels
ratings_count: 252
awards: awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Prize, awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Sami Rohr Prize
category: Jewish Literature
publisher: Toby Pr