The sacrifice of Tamar
By: Naomi Ragen.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Crown Publishers
Published: 1994
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 381
Subjects: Jews -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction; Blacks -- Relations with Jews -- Fiction; Family -- Israel -- Fiction; Jewish women -- Fiction; Rape victims -- Fiction; New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction; Israel -- Fiction
Description: A rabbi's wife in New York is raped by a black man, but hides the incident from her husband and they continue sleeping as normal. On becoming pregnant she cannot tell who the father is, so decides against an abortion. The novel traces the consequences. By the author of Sotah.