1947. Michael Devlin, eleven years old and 100 percent American Irish, is about to forge a most extraordinary bond. His new friend is Rabbi Judah Hirsch, a refugee from Prague. Here in Brooklyn, surrounded by tenements and the smell of hot dogs, Rabbi Hirsch enchants Michael with stories of ancient wisdom as Michael explains to him the equally wondrous world of baseball. Then the neighborhood intervenes--and only one thing can save them from the hate all around them. A miracle...
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New York : Back Bay Books, Little, Brown and Company, 2013.
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