| 词条 | Rina Lazarus |
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| name = Rina Lazarus | series = | image = | caption = | first = The Ritual Bath | last = | creator = Faye Kellerman | portrayer = | gender = Female | occupation = Private detective | family = Peter Decker (second husband) Jacob Lazarus (son by first marriage) Samuel Lazarus (son by first marriage) Cindy Decker (step daughter) Hannah Decker (daughter by second marriage) | nationality = }} Rina Lazarus is a fictional character in a series of mystery novels by Faye Kellerman. Rina, an Orthodox Jew, is the daughter of Holocaust survivors from Hungary. She married a yeshiva scholar when she was 17, lived in Israel with him for a time and had two sons. During the First Lebanon War she helped care for wounded Israelis soldiers, gaining a medical skill useful in her later American life. At that time she resided in the Israeli settlement of Kiryat Arba on the West Bank, and - as she clearly expresses in "A Stone Kiss" - retained a positive attitude towards the Israeli settlers. Her husband died of a brain tumor and she went to a US college to finish her degree in mathematics. She is living and teaching at a yeshiva school when she meets her second husband, Los Angeles police sergeant (later lieutenant) Peter Decker, in The Ritual Bath. Decker, though raised Baptist by his adoptive parents in Florida, discovered as an adult that his birth parents were Jewish, which makes him officially Jewish as well. After meeting Rina during his investigation of a rape at the yeshiva, he is compelled to explore the religion for himself and eventually to become a religiously observant Orthodox Jew.[1] Religion is a very central part of Rina's identity. Though loving Peter, she would never have married him had he not been ready to become a Jew - not only by the accident of birth, but also by a conscious decision to become a practicing Orthodox Jew with that that involces. Rina strictly keeps the code of dressing and behaviour appropriate to a "frum" Orthodox Jewish woman. Still, there are some exceptions. In "Prayers For the Dead" it is revealed that at one moment of her life, Rina had been deeply involved with Bram Sparks, a Roman Catholic Priest, as deeply committed to Catholic Christianity as Rina was to Orthodox Judaism. Though probably not physically consumated (that point is left a bit ambiguous), the two of them deeply loved each other - even though such a love was clearly contradictory to the behaviour dictated by both their religions. Moreover, she retains some her feelings for Bram even when already married to Peter - which makes Peter very jealous. , A bit later, Rina's li fe All of the books that follow in the series are rooted in Jewish themes. Major characters in the series include Rina's two sons, Jacob and Samuel Lazarus; Cindy Decker, Peter's daughter from his first marriage; Rina and Peter's daughter Hannah Decker; and Peter's partner Marge Dunn. Decker's daughter from his first marriage, Cindy Decker, a teenager in the earliest books, eventually follows her father into the police force and is the main character of two of the later books, Stalker and Street Dreams. Novels in the series
Critical receptionAnalyst Dorothea Fischer-Hornung states that the character of Rina was used to teach the reader about Orthodox Judaism, even while she "breaks the rules set out for her as an Orthodox Jewish wife", serving "to counterbalance the stereotypical view of traditional Jewish women's roles".[1] Laurence Roth adds that Rina's relationship with the "assimilated American Jewish male", Decker, presents a "solution" to "the bane of American Jewish life during the 1990s". Roth also suggests that Rina's surname, Lazarus, "signifies the contemporary perception that Jewish tradition is being resurrected".[2] References1. ^1 {{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MFn_GrvDZW4C&lpg=PA63&dq=%22Rina%20Lazarus%22&pg=PA63#v=onepage&q=%22Rina%20Lazarus%22&f=false | title=Sleuthing Ethnicity: The Detective in Multiethnic Crime Fiction | publisher=Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press | author=Fischer-Hornung, Dorothea | year=2003 | isbn=9780838639795}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Lazarus, Rina}}{{novel-char-stub}}2. ^{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DtCDVmNNtRcC&lpg=PA55&dq=%22Rina%20Lazarus%22&pg=PA55#v=onepage&q=%22Rina%20Lazarus%22&f=false | title=Inspecting Jews: American Jewish Detective Stories | publisher=Rutgers University Press | author=Roth, Laurence | year=2004 | pages=55 | isbn=9780813533698}} 7 : Fictional American Jews|Fictional Israeli Jews|Fictional detectives|Fictional characters introduced in 1986|Characters in American novels of the 20th century|Characters in American novels of the 21st century|Novel series |
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