![]() Feldman was raised to believe that Hitler’s extermination of the Jews was God’s punishment for European Jewish assimilation. Born into a Yiddish-speaking Hasidic Jewish sect founded by Holocaust survivors, after World War II, in Brooklyn, Ms. This perseverance has characterized much of Ms. for a final 20-minute glimpse of the sun. Feldman moves to a west-facing terrace in a nearby cemetery, before heading to her favorite cafe table at around 2 p.m. ![]() Then, juggling TV interviews, photo shoots, newspaper deadlines, public readings, awards ceremonies, child care and work on her new novel, Ms. There, the sun shines around noon, for an hour. December marks the 31-year-old Brooklyn-raised writer’s fourth winter living in Berlin, a place notorious for its long, gray months, and by now she has it down: On the rare days when the cloud cover breaks, she hurries to her local market hall, a 100-year-old, light-flooded space in Berlin’s Kreuzberg neighborhood. BERLIN - Deborah Feldman has learned to follow the sun. ![]()
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