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Book Club Kit, The midwife of Venice by Rich, Roberta is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
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At midnight, the dogs, cats, and rats rule Venice. The Ponte di Ghetto Nuovo, the bridge that leads to the ghetto, trembles under the weight of sacks of rotting vegetables, rancid fat, and vermin. Shapeless matter, perhaps animal, floats to the surface of Rio di San Girolamo and hovers on its greasy waters. Through the mist rising from the canal the cries and grunts of foraging pigs echo. Seeping refuse on the streets renders the pavement slick and the walking treacherous. It was on such a night that the men came for Hannah. - Hannah Levi is known throughout sixteenth-century Venice for her skill in midwifery. When a Christian count appears at Hannah's door in the Jewish ghetto imploring her to attend his labouring wife, who is nearing death, Hannah is forced to make a dangerous decision. Not only is it illegal for Jews to render medical treatment to Christians, it's also punishable by torture and death. Moreover, as her Rabbi angrily points out, if the mother or child should die, the entire ghetto population will be in peril. But Hannah’s compassion for another woman’s misery overrides her concern for self-preservation. The Rabbi once forced her to withhold care from her shunned
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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Rich, Roberta
- Publisher
- Doubleday Canada; Anchor Canada
- Published
- 2011
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780385668286
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Fiction, History
- Rating
- 3.57 / 5 (8,516 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14