Title: Snow in August
Subtitle: a novel
First published: 1997
Description: In the year 1947, Michael Devlin, eleven years old and 100 percent American-Irish, is about to forge an extraordinary bond with a refugee of war named Rabbi Judah Hirsch. Standing united against a common enemy, they will summon from ancient sources a power in desperately short supply in modern Brooklyn-a force that's forgotten by most of the world but is known to believers as magic.
Subjects: Fiction, Jewish way of life, Friendship, Baseball, Baseball stories, Large type books, Fiction, historical, general, Jews, fiction, New york (n.y.), fiction, Friendship, fiction, Fiction, sports
Places: Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)