Rent The Parnas: A Scene from the Holocaust

Synopsis

The psychiatrist's insight and storyteller's skill offer an absorbing tale.'-Elie Wiesel

'A work of art.'-'The New York Times Book Review'

'A book to read again and again with the same piety with which it has been written.'-Primo Levi

The Parnas recreates the final days of Giuseppe Pardo Roques, the lay leader, or parnas, of the Sephardic Jewish community of Pisa, Italy, who was killed in his home by the Nazis in August, 1944. Pardo was a mentor to the author, and, indeed, he was a figure adored a

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