The Devil's Arithmetic
What is the problem in the story
What is the problem in the book?
What is the problem in the book?
The protagonist of the story. Hannah is a young Jewish girl who lives with her family in New Rochelle, NY. She is disinterested in, and even embarrassed by, her Jewish heritage and family. During a Seder dinner she is suddenly transported to Poland in 1942 where she inhabits the life of her own distant relative, Chaya Abramowicz. Hannah is forced to endure the atrocities of the holocaust.