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Chapters (68)
  1. Cover
  2. Dedication
  3. Epigraph
  4. Prologue
  5. Part I
  6. Chapter One
  7. Chapter Two
  8. Chapter Three
  9. Chapter Four
  10. Chapter Five
  11. Chapter Six
  12. Chapter Seven
  13. Chapter Eight
  14. Chapter Nine
  15. Chapter Ten
  16. Chapter Eleven
  17. Chapter Twelve
  18. Chapter Thirteen
  19. Chapter Fourteen
  20. Chapter Fifteen
  21. Chapter Sixteen
  22. Chapter Seventeen
  23. Chapter Eighteen
  24. Chapter Nineteen
  25. Chapter Twenty
  26. Chapter Twenty-One
  27. Part II
  28. Chapter Twenty-Two
  29. Chapter Twenty-Three
  30. Chapter Twenty-Four
  31. Chapter Twenty-Five
  32. Chapter Twenty-Six
  33. Chapter Twenty-Seven
  34. Chapter Twenty-Eight
  35. Chapter Twenty-Nine
  36. Chapter Thirty
  37. Chapter Thirty-One
  38. Chapter Thirty-Two
  39. Chapter Thirty-Three
  40. Chapter Thirty-Four
  41. Part III
  42. Chapter Thirty-Five
  43. Chapter Thirty-Six
  44. Chapter Thirty-Seven
  45. Chapter Thirty-Eight
  46. Chapter Thirty-Nine
  47. Chapter Forty
  48. Chapter Forty-One
  49. Chapter Forty-Two
  50. Chapter Forty-Three
  51. Chapter Forty-Four
  52. Chapter Forty-Five
  53. Chapter Forty-Six
  54. Chapter Forty-Seven
  55. Chapter Forty-Eight
  56. Epilogue
  57. Author’s Note
  58. Acknowledgments
  59. Glossary
  60. P.S. Insights, Interviews & More . . .*
  61. About the Author
  62. Buenos Aires, 1996
  63. About the Book
  64. Ezrat Nashim Poster
  65. Reading Group Guide
  66. Praise
  67. Also by Talia Carner
  68. About the Publisher

shaygetz—Non-Jewish man. (Also derogatory for any brute or scoundrel.)

Shema—A liturgical twice-daily prayer that expresses the Jewish faith in God.

sheyn meydele—Pretty girl.

shiksa—Non-Jewish female.

shiva—Seven days of mourning.

shtiebel—Makeshift prayer and meeting room.

shtille chuppah—“Silent” wedding, with only one witness, no rabbi.

shver—Father-in-law.

sofer—Scribe of religious documents.

tahara—Religious purification of the body in preparation for burial.

talis—Fringed prayer shawl worn by Orthodox Jewish men.

tangele—Yiddish tango in Argentina.

tchotchkes—Trinkets, knickknacks.

tijera—(Spanish) In tango, feet or legs scissoring.

tkhines—Women’s prayers in Yiddish.

tme’ah—Contaminated; feminine (masculine plural tme’yim; feminine plural tme’ot).

tranvias—(Spanish) tram lines.

tsures—Problems, troubles.

tzaddik—A righteous man, a man of the highest virtues (plural tsaddikim).

verst—(Russian) A distance measure—about two-thirds of a mile.

yahrzeit—Anniversary of a death.

yapa—(Spanish) A bonus item for a purchase.

yerba maté, maté—(Spanish) A tea-like beverage drunk with a straw out of a hollowed gourd. Pronounced “MAH-teh.”

yichus—Lineage, social status.

P.S. Insights, Interviews & More . . .*

About the Author

Meet Talia Carner

Buenos Aires, 1996

About the Book

The Historical Background of The Third Daughter

Ezrat Nashim Poster

Reading Group Guide

About the Author

Meet Talia Carner

TALIA CARNER is the former publisher of Savvy Woman magazine and a consultant to Fortune 500 companies. She is a board member of the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute, the Jewish women’s research center at Brandeis University, as well as an honorary board member of several anti–domestic violence and child abuse intervention organizations. Her previous novels—Hotel Moscow, Jerusalem Maiden, China Doll, and Puppet Child—have been hailed for exposing society’s ills. Dozens of Carner’s award-winning essays, articles, and short stories have appeared in anthologies, literary reviews, and leading websites. She is a committed supporter of global human rights, having spearheaded projects centered on the subjects of female plight and participated as a panelist or delivered more than three hundred keynotes addresses at civic and cultural organizations. image

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Buenos Aires, 1996

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Ronald Carner

Following the 1994 bombing of the Asociación Mutual Israelita Argentina (AMIA) building, which housed all Jewish organizations in Buenos Aires—a bombing that left eighty-five dead and hundreds injured—author Talia Carner participated in a demonstration in front of the Argentine Department of Justice, which had been assigned the task of investigating those responsible for the attack.

For twenty-three years, all investigations met a brick wall, culminating in the murder of the key prosecutor, Alberto Nisman, in 2015, hours before he was to present his findings to the Argentine National Congress. Finally, in December 2017, a federal judge indicted former president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner for colluding with Iran in the cover-up of Tehran’s role in the bombing.