01954cam a2200361 i 4500 395150041 TxAuBib 20191017120000.0 190104s2019||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2018057681 9781501137570 hardcover 1501137573 hardcover 9781501137587 trade paperback 1501137581 trade paperback TxAuBib rda Hoffman, Alice. The world that we knew : a novel / Alice Hoffman. First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. New York : Simon & Shuster, 2019. New York : Simon & Shuster, 2019. 384 pages ; 23 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier In Berlin, at the time when the world changed, Hanni Kohn knows she must send her twelve-year-old daughter away to save her from the Nazi regime. She finds her way to a renowned rabbi, but it’s his daughter, Ettie, who offers hope of salvation when she creates a mystical Jewish creature, a rare and unusual golem, who is sworn to protect Lea. Once Ava is brought to life, she and Lea and Ettie become eternally entwined, their paths fated to cross, their fortunes linked. Lea and Ava travel from Paris, where Lea meets her soulmate, to a convent in western France known for its silver roses; from a school in a mountaintop village where three thousand Jews were saved. Meanwhile, Ettie is in hiding, waiting to become the fighter she’s destined to be. 20191017. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Fiction. Jews France Paris Fiction. Jewish children Fiction. Golem Ficton. . Children of rabbis Fiction. . Paris (France) History 1940-1944 Fiction.