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*''Hannah Stern'' *''Hannah Stern''
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*''Chaya Abramowicz'' *''Chaya Abramowicz''
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Overview

The Devil's Arithmetic is a novel written by Jane Yolen in 1988. It tells the story of a Jewish girl, Hanna. She is tired of remembering the horrors of the Holocaust and Passover. She is living in present time in the United States who at her family's Passover Seder is transferred to Poland during the height of the Nazi occupation in 1942 where she becomes Chaya. It received the National Jewish Book Award. It was made into a TV movie starring Kirsten Dunst and Brittany Murphy in 1999.

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Main characters

Present

  • Hannah Stern
  • Aaron Stern (Hannah's brother)
  • Aunt Eva (Hannah's great-aunt, known as Rivka when she was a child in Poland)

1942, Poland

  • Chaya Abramowicz
  • Gitl Abramowicz (Chaya's aunt)
  • Shmuel Abramowicz (Chaya's Uncle, Gitl's brother)
  • Fayge (Shmuel's fiancee)
  • Rivka (Chaya's friend from the concentration camp, changes name to Eva when she comes to the United States after the war)


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