![]() ![]() Eventually he falls in with a group of exiles, including a rabbi––a mystic whose belief in the potential for grace in everyday life powerfully counters Gamaliel’s feelings of loss and dispossession. ![]() After a failed marriage, he moves to New York, where he works as a ghostwriter, living through the lives of others. Gamaliel tries, unsuccessfully, to find a place for himself in Europe. ![]() But in 1956, to escape the stranglehold of communism, he leaves Budapest after painfully parting from Ilonka. With his Jewish identity hidden, Gamaliel survives the war. Five years later, in desperation, Gamaliel’s parents entrust him to a young Christian cabaret singer named Ilonka. For him, it will be the beginning of a life of rootlessness, disguise, and longing. Gamaliel Friedman is only a child when his family flees Czechoslovakia in 1939 for the relative safety of Hungary. ![]()
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