Norma Harris discusses her novel, Trumpets of Silver, which was influenced by letters from Harris’s aunt about Harris’s grandmother. Martinson and Harris go on to talk about the concept and history of the Pale of Settlement, an area between Russia and Poland where Catherine the Great had exiled Jewish people. They also discuss family disputes and complications over marrying outside one’s religion, and the practice of cutting off young men’s fingers to avoid being kidnapped for the Czar’s army. Harris concludes by reading an expert of her book, a speech by the character Joshua about why he lives in Jerusalem.
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