Simon Eichelkatz

The doctor climbs an outside staircase to a room above the Flour Market—and finds not a frail patient but a kingly old man. Simon Eichelkatz’s quiet presence soon draws him into questions of faith, family, and a son who has vanished behind another name.

In a German city at the turn of the twentieth century, the New Synagogue stands amid modern streets, holding fast to memories its neighbors cannot quite leave behind. The physician who visits Simon is caught between his modern doubts and the Hebrew prayers that still rise unbidden in his heart. Around Simon, the loyal, sharp-tongued Feiwel guards an old household’s secrets; one is Simon’s only son, now Professor Friedrich Eichner in Berlin, baptized and estranged from his father. What can the old man’s stories reveal about the distance between them—and the faith that still binds the community?

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