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SUMMARY:WL Book Club
DESCRIPTION:100 Saturdays\nWritten by: Michael Frank\n\nOne of Wall Street
  Journal’s Ten Best Books of the Year * Winner of the National Jewish
  Book Awards for Holocaust Memoir and Sephardic Culture * Recipient of the
  Jewish Book Council’s Natan Notable Book Award * Winner of the Sophie
  Brody Medal\n\nThe remarkable story of ninety-nine-year-old Stella Levi w
 hose conversations with the author over the course of six years bring to l
 ife the vibrant world of Jewish Rhodes\, the deportation to Auschwitz that
  extinguished ninety percent of her community\, and the resilience and wis
 dom of the woman who lived to tell the tale.\n\nWith nearly a century of l
 ife behind her\, Stella Levi had never before spoken in detail about her p
 ast. Then she met Michael Frank. He came to her Greenwich Village apartmen
 t one Saturday afternoon to ask her a question about the Juderia\, the nei
 ghborhood on the Greek island of Rhodes where she’d grown up in a Jewish
  community that had thrived there for half a millennium.\n\nNeither of the
 m could know this was the first of one hundred Saturdays over the course o
 f six years that they would spend in each other’s company. During these 
 meetings Stella traveled back in time to conjure what it felt like to come
  of age on this luminous\, legendary island in the eastern Aegean\, which 
 the Italians conquered in 1912\, began governing as an official colonial p
 ossession in 1923\, and continued to administer even after the Germans sei
 zed control in September 1943. The following July\, the Germans rounded up
  all 1\,700-plus residents of the Juderia and sent them first by boat and 
 then by train to Auschwitz on what was the longest journey—measured by b
 oth time and distance—of any of the deportations. Ninety percent of them
  were murdered upon arrival.\n\nProbing and courageous\, candid and sly\, 
 Stella is a magical modern-day Scheherazade whose stories reveal what it w
 as like to grow up in an extraordinary place in an extraordinary time—an
 d to construct a life after that place has vanished. One Hundred Saturday
 s is a portrait of one of the last survivors drawn at nearly the last pos
 sible moment\, as well as an account of a tender and transformative friend
 ship between storyteller and listener\, offering a powerful “reminder th
 at the ability to listen thoughtfully is a rare and significant gift” (T
 he Wall Street Journal).\n\n&nbsp\;
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