Because he was permitted to survive World War II, French Jew, Joseph Brill has dedicated his life to the exhortation of his childhood rabbi--to teach. As principal of a school in the American midwest, he teaches his version of enlightenment hoping to make a difference. But all he sees around him is debilitating mediocrity until the brilliant Hester Lilt enrolls her daughter in his school.
"Le pédagogue et l'enfant-génie. Une stimulante initiation au "roman juif américain" des années 1980, comme l'écrit Nicole Zand dans ##Le Monde## du 28 février 1986, p. 18. Le héros est un principal d'école primaire de la région de Milwaukee, juif d'origine française, aux ambitions inaccomplies. Dans la lignée d'Isaac Bashevis Singer."
"Because he was permitted to survive World War II, French Jew, Joseph Brill has dedicated his life to the exhortation of his childhood rabbi--to teach. As principal of a school in the American midwest, he teaches his version of enlightenment hoping to make a difference. But all he sees around him is debilitating mediocrity until the brilliant Hester Lilt enrolls her daughter in his school."
"Because he was permitted to survive World War II, French Jew, Joseph Brill has dedicated his life to the exhortation of his childhood rabbi--to teach. As principal of a school in the American midwest, he teaches his version of enlightenment hoping to make a difference. But all he sees around him is debilitating mediocrity until the brilliant Hester Lilt enrolls her daughter in his school."@en
"Joseph Brill, a Holocaust survivor who has become the founder and principal of the Edmond Fleg Primary School in the midwest, attempts to escape the mediocrity of his life by taking as a pupil the underachieving daughter of a famous mother."
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