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Shmuel
Yitzchak is a butcher with two young children, Reuven and Tzipporah, who wants to marry Gitl after his first wife dies. Gitl always refuses him, but the two maintain a lifelong friendship. When Yitzchak’s children die in the concentration camp, he, Shmuel, and some others plan an escape attempt. Yitzchak is the only one who makes it out alive, illustrating the dismal odds that Jewish people faced in concentration camps.
Yitzchak Quotes in The Devil’s Arithmetic
The The Devil’s Arithmetic quotes below are all either spoken by Yitzchak or refer to Yitzchak. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 13
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Something forced Hannah to bend down and stare into the shelf. Little Tzipporah lay curled in a ball, her finger in her mouth like a stopper in a bottle. There was a fly on her cheek. Hannah reached out to brush it off.
“Do not touch her,” Gitl said.
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Chapter 16
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The commandant stood up and stared at her, his eyes gray and unreadable. “Are you his sister?”
She shook her head dumbly, afraid to say more.
“That is good. For you.”
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Chapter 17
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“If something happens to us, you must remember. Promise me, Chaya, you will remember.”
Hannah’s lips moved but no sound came out.
“Promise.”
“I will remember.” The words forced themselves out through her stiffened lips.
Epilogue
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It later became an adoption agency, the finest in the Mideast. She called it after her young niece, who had died a hero in the camps: CHAYA.
Life.
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Yitzchak Quotes in The Devil’s Arithmetic
The The Devil’s Arithmetic quotes below are all either spoken by Yitzchak or refer to Yitzchak. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Chapter 13
Quotes
Something forced Hannah to bend down and stare into the shelf. Little Tzipporah lay curled in a ball, her finger in her mouth like a stopper in a bottle. There was a fly on her cheek. Hannah reached out to brush it off.
“Do not touch her,” Gitl said.
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Chapter 16
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The commandant stood up and stared at her, his eyes gray and unreadable. “Are you his sister?”
She shook her head dumbly, afraid to say more.
“That is good. For you.”
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Chapter 17
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“If something happens to us, you must remember. Promise me, Chaya, you will remember.”
Hannah’s lips moved but no sound came out.
“Promise.”
“I will remember.” The words forced themselves out through her stiffened lips.
Epilogue
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It later became an adoption agency, the finest in the Mideast. She called it after her young niece, who had died a hero in the camps: CHAYA.
Life.
