Comments on: More on Geraldine Brooks and the Sarajevo Haggadah

By: Review: People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks « The Book Stop

Review: People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks « The Book Stop — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 14:02:10 +0000

[...] You can learn more about the Haggadah’s history and see photos of the artwork at http://www.haggadah.ba/?. Also interesting is a review of the book at http://www.jewishliteraryreview.com/2008/01/more-on-geraldine-brooks-and-the-sarajevo-haggadah/. [...]

By: amish451

amish451 — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 12:19:16 +0000

The Journal-Constitution’s review writer, Greg Changnon can’t seem to get anything right. He screwed up the title of Brooks’ novel (March) and seems a bit too critical of what I read (The People of the Book) as a wonderful journey through five centuries of remarkable characters and the tremendous courage that saved this remarkable text from sure destruction. Perhaps Changnon has an attention deficit problem. “The March” was the title of the missive that ‘Brooks thought’ was the winner in 2006 when a friend called to congratulate her. She said her son referred to the award as “The Pulitzer Surprise”.

By: Aaron

Aaron — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 09:06:38 +0000

I have read “People of the Book” and simply had to see the actual masterpiece in real life! The journey was amazing since entire Balkans was a mystery to me and had known little about the Jewish heritage of the region. Inspired by the book, my family and I departed on the most wonderful journey and enjoyed every second of it! The tour was designed by a local agency and now they even have a web site for that tour only: http://www.sarajevohaggadahjourney.com/ We could not, of course, touch the book but the exhibition is exceptional and the curator even showed us the actual book. My eyes watered…

By: Steve Pollak

Steve Pollak — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 16:10:01 +0000

You’re correct. The title of the book is “March.”

By: Marilyn Rowland

Marilyn Rowland — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 07:13:22 +0000

It is unfortunate that the writer of the above piece about Geraldine Brooks’ book based on the father in Little Women got the title wrong. The correct title is MARCH, not The March. I am unable to make this correction, but I hope someone can do it. It is a shame that the writer got the facts so totally wrong.He/she has done a grave disservice to the author.