The noted writer and scholar, Professor Hayim Be’er wrote in the blurb on the back cover: “The rabbi’s daughter is one of the charming archetypes in Hebrew literature. The acclaimed Shaul Tchernichovsky, Jacob Steinberg and of course Devorah Baron, the feminist writer, wrote about the rabbi’s daughter. To this prestigious gallery of respected authors Avigail Graetz enters with honors….It is a one of a kind book that captivates the heart and sheds light on characters who are torn between tradition and modernity, between the United States and Israel, between sanity and craziness and between religion and freedom.”

This family novel travels through time, written in a first person’s voice. It travels from 1999 when the heroine’s grandmother is on her deathbed to 1993 when Elisheva is still an adolescent. Her mother is away and she and her father, a conservative rabbi, find themselves hosting a strange American women that enters their home while Elisheva’s mother is away. This visit has changed their lives and only now, as the grandmother is departing the world she is brave enough to face her story and the motherhood legacy she received.

This novel, unlike many novels written by Israelis, relates to the Jewish aspect of Israel in a pluralistic sense, while being Zionist in the fact that this book describes growing up in the periphery of Israel, Some of the universal themes of the book include adolescent rebellion, separation, cancer, death, Jewish hospitality, cinema, memory and more.

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