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Leah and Shimon Feldstein escape to Jerusalem's Jewish quarter from Austria just before WWII erupts in Europe. Reports from England on the wireless have promised Palestine will be a safe haven. But Leah is wounded by a car bomb, and Shimon barely misses being lynched by an Arab mob. These pioneering Jewish settlers, attempting to reclaim their Biblical Promised Land, face the same terrors that still haunt Israel today. Thoene's fourth novel in the inspirational Zion Covenant series follows the Feldsteins and other families fleeing persecution in Nazi-threatened Poland. Susan O'Malley's calm, matter-of-fact tone contrasts with the violence in the story to chilling effect. Her tender yet determined delivery renews the listener's belief in the power of faith against overwhelming odds. E.V. © AudioFile 2003, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine
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DISCOVER THE TRUTH THROUGH FICTION
Zion beckons . . .
but is it really the “Land of Promise”?
In August 1938 Hitler’s Brownshirts conquer Czechoslovakia. German Jews are deported in cattle cars to Poland, the country of earlier pograms. Other Jews flee to Palestine, the Promised Land of their dreams . . . only to be imprisoned behind barbed wire upon their arrival. Musicians Shimon and Leah Feldstein, two of the “lucky ones,” are allowed to disembark from their rusting ship. Yet even in the Holy City, darkness lurks. The Muslim Grand Mufti of Jerusalem and Adolf Hitler secretly join forces to eradicate the Jews from the earth. Is there no place that’s safe for Shimon and Leah? for the esteemed Rabbi Lebowitz and his family? for the Jew Eli Sachar and Muslim Victoria Hassan—in love but separated by the highest walls of religion and tradition?
Zion beckons . . .
but is it really the “Land of Promise”?
In August 1938 Hitler’s Brownshirts conquer Czechoslovakia. German Jews are deported in cattle cars to Poland, the country of earlier pograms. Other Jews flee to Palestine, the Promised Land of their dreams . . . only to be imprisoned behind barbed wire upon their arrival. Musicians Shimon and Leah Feldstein, two of the “lucky ones,” are allowed to disembark from their rusting ship. Yet even in the Holy City, darkness lurks. The Muslim Grand Mufti of Jerusalem and Adolf Hitler secretly join forces to eradicate the Jews from the earth. Is there no place that’s safe for Shimon and Leah? for the esteemed Rabbi Lebowitz and his family? for the Jew Eli Sachar and Muslim Victoria Hassan—in love but separated by the highest walls of religion and tradition?
