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The Devil's Arithmetic is a 1999 TV movie based on the historical novel of the same name by Jane Yolen. It stars Kirsten Dunst as Hannah Stern and costars Brittany Murphy, Louise Fletcher, and Mimi Rogers. Dustin Hoffman introduces the film but is uncredited and serves as an executive producer with Mimi Rogers. [1]
The Devil's Arithmetic is the author's first book that deals explicitly with Jewish themes. [2] While writing the novel, Yolen spent a week at an Indianapolis private school; when she explained to students about her forthcoming work, one student asked if Yolen had made up the events of the novel, based on the real story of the Holocaust. [2]
Jane Hyatt Yolen was born on February 11, 1939, at Beth Israel Medical Center in Manhattan.She is the first child of Isabell Berlin Yolen, a psychiatric social worker who became a full-time mother and homemaker upon Yolen's birth, and Will Hyatt Yolen, a journalist who wrote columns at the time for New York newspapers, [5] and whose family emigrated from Ukraine to the United States. [1]
The Devil's Arithmetic: Donna Deitch: Based on the novel by Jane Yolen: 1999 Germany Gloomy Sunday: Rolf Schübel: Based on the novel by Nick Barkow 1999 United States Jakob the Liar: Peter Kassovitz: Based on the novel by Jurek Becker: 1999 Germany Austria Canada Hungary Sunshine: István Szabó
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The Devil's Arithmetic (1988), Nebula Award finalist; basis of the 1999 film of the same name) The Dragon's Boy (1990) Wizard's Hall (1991) The Wild Hunt (1995) Briar Rose (1992, Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature, Nebula Award finalist)