Bubi rends his and his sister’s garments when they learn of their father’s death and reminds her they must observe Jewish law by sitting shiva. After Beth’s sisters are killed during an Allied bombing, Laura reminds her of the Hebrew date of her sisters’ deaths. And once you live a good story, you get a taste for a kind of meaning in life, and you cant go back to being normal you cant go back to meaningless scenes stitched together by the forgettable thread of wasted time.
Britton-Jackson observes fasts for both Yom Kippur and Passover, despite the physical risks in her malnourished condition. The night before authorities transport him to a labor camp, he studies the Talmud with Bubi and tells him to remember these passages when he thinks of his father in the future. After Markus’ business is shut down, he finds comfort reading the Talmud.
Throughout the book, Britton-Jackson, her family, and her fellow Jewish inmates find solace in their faith and strive to observe its laws. Sharing the fate of the Jewish people in the ghetto changes this, and she feels “happy to share this peculiar condition of Jewishness” (41). Prior to her experience in the ghetto, Bitton-Jackson says she had not considered whether she was proud to be Jewish.
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