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The marrying of chani kaufman by eve harris, paperback. See all 9 formats and editions hide other formats and editions. Chani despairs that she will become an exhausted shell like her endlessly childbearing mother, and frets that her parents will bankrupt themselves with the task of marrying off eight girls. Chani kaufman, the fifth of eight daughters of an ultaorthodox rabbi of a small stiebel in hendon and his overworked, overweight wife who is always short of time and money is getting married. Chani kaufman is a nineteenyearold woman, betrothed to baruch levy, a young man whom she has seen only four times before their wedding day. The plot centers around 19 year old chani s marriage to 20 year old baruch and deals with a variety of issues relating to the preparations for marriage of this orthodox jewish couple. The marrying of chani kaufman shines a valuable light on a topic and a people rarely seen in fiction. The marrying of chani kaufman eve harris 19 yearold chani lives in the ultraorthodox jewish community of north west london.
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