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Blood of our children

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Author Wartell, with an intelligent style that occasionally veers toward brilliance, manages the difficult task of combining several vastly different cultures who shared the stage of the book's time and place -- the poverty-stricken and ultra-religious Polish Jewish community of the late 18th century; the highly politicized and powerful world of the Polish Catholic nobility; and the mysterious and mystical life of the ever-wandering Eastern European Gypsies.

As deadly vampires enter this polyglot picture, specifically by preying upon Jewish youths on the eve of their Bar Mitzvahs, Wartell personalizes the story with a handful of well-drawn characters.

Conversations and interaction between these characters provide fascinating discourses on politics, religion, philosophy and spirituality. But when two of them -- a Polish rabbi and Catholic nobleman -- find themselves in a tomb populated by a small host of newly-made and ravenous vampires, their talk abruptly ceases. The ensuing scene is bloody eno