As the lonely fly

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The work As the lonely fly represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

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Label

As the lonely fly

Statement of responsibility

Sara Dowse

Creator

• trueDowse, Sara, 1938-

Contributor

• Cozzi, John

Author

• trueDowse, Sara, 1938-

Book designer

• Cozzi, John

Subject

• trueAustralian
• trueHistorical fiction
• true1920s -- 1920 -- 1929
• trueReligious persecution
• trueInterpersonal relations
• trueZionism
• trueAustralian fiction
• Persecution -- Fiction
• trueWomen immigrants
• Women immigrants -- Fiction
• trueJews
• Interpersonal relations -- Fiction
• trueNation building
• trueInterethnic relations
• trueBetween the Wars (1918-1939) -- 1918 -- 1939
• trueJewish women
• Jewish women -- Fiction

Genre

• Fiction
• trueHistorical fiction
• trueAustralian fiction

Language

eng

Summary

In 1922 Clara goes to Palestine where she joins the legendary G'dud Ha'Avodah or Labour Battalion, the roving collective initially formed to build roads connecting the growing Jewish settlements. But she soon becomes uneasy about Jewish settlers taking work from Arabs and usurping their land. As the schism widens between socialist and more conservative Zionists, Chava's abiding sense of justice has potentially lethal consequences. Clara's younger sister Manya migrates to the relative safety of Omaha in the American Midwest, reinventing herself as Marion for better assimilation. Despite escaping mounting antisemitism in Europe Marion feels isolated on the prairie, eventually finding her way to New York, an acting career and a life of ease compared to the hardships of Palestine. Zippora, Chava and Marion's niece, is a committed Zionist who hides from the Soviet secret police in a Ukranian forest and, in frequent letters, begs her dear Doda Clara to help her get to Palestine. Once there, Zipporah is dismayed by Chava's disillusionment with Zionism, her ardent belief in a future Jewish state remaining undiminished. Thus Clara, Manya and Zipporah form three sides of a triangle - the doomed revolutionary, the American immigrant, and the committed Israeli - three very different yet equally influential perspectives on the creation of present-day Israel

Cataloging source

ANL

Index

no index present

Literary form

novels

Target audience

adult