![]() Her husband, Nathan, is one of them, doubly so: it was his brother whom she traveled half the world to marry, sight unseen, before he took one look at her “shadowed face, the dress, all wrong, that had obviously been chosen with care,” and fled from the engagement.As she herself would all too soon flee from Nathan and their infant daughter, Ruth. And the world she marries into is populated by strangers too. She brings with her an uncut diamond, a journal written in Yiddish and the grief of a brutally erased world.īut if her sorrow is genuine, her other possessions, including the name Lily, belong to a stranger they aren’t hers. ![]() The bride, Lily Azerov, is a refugee from Poland, via Palestine. ![]() When the Nazis at the border asked what she was taking with her, she replied, “Only what you see!” And they let her through.įrika might have stepped from the pages of Nancy Richler’s moving third novel, “The Imposter Bride,” which opens in 1946 at a wedding in Montreal’s Jewish community. So she wore her money on her hat, in the form of a diamond brooch, which - thus flaunted - passed for fake. ![]() She knew if she were caught smuggling out the means of subsistence, she would be arrested. A family story: My mother’s friend Frika, a Viennese Jew, managed to leave Austria for America after the Anschluss. ![]()
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