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Drawing on Henrietta Szold's letters and diary, extensive research, and historical sources of that time in Germany and Palestine, the book is a powerful narrative and spellbinding rescue story that brings to life one of the darkest and yet most inspirational chapters in Jewish history. Szold was seventy-three, founder of Hadassah, the Jewish Zionist women's organization, when she was appointed to direct Youth Aliyah, and over the next decade t...

In October 1938, eight-year-old Josef Rosenbaum, his mother, and his younger sister set out from Germany on a cruel odyssey, fleeing into eastern Europe along with thousands of other refugees. Sent to Siberian slave labor camps in the wildernesses, they suffered brutal cold, famine, and disease. When Germany invaded Russia many refugees were forced out of Siberia to primitive tent camps in Uzbekistan, accompanied by the Polish army-in-exile pr...

That Good Land" is a lyrical first-person narrative chronicling the downfall of John Luther as he struggles to face the truth concerning two haunting mysteries from thirty years ago--military secrets uncovered during the fall of Saigon, and the disappearance of his wife, Rachel, two years later. Present day. When he learns his father is sick, Luther returns to Samaria, Louisiana to work on his unfinished novel about Saigon, and to finally conf...