The Devil's Arithmetic by Jane Yolen

The Devil's Arithmetic by Jane Yolen

The Devil's Arithmetic by Jane Yolen

Jane Yolen's "The Devil's Arithmetic" is a school room fixture and a benchmark in juvenile mature person publications for its vivid yet sensitive portrayal of the Holocaust. In this Showtime made-for-TV adaptation, presented and made by Dustin Hoffman (himself from a family of Polish Jews), the novel is conveyed to life in a way that displays younger viewers the horrors of the Holocaust without being overtly gory.

up to date teenager Hannah Stern resents being made to participate in her Aunt Eva's Passover commemorations, feeling no ...