A Family Saga - Alex Bloch
- Life and Love Amidst Turmoil and Tragedy
A Family Saga: Life and Love Amidst Turmoil and Tragedy takes an in-depth look at the exceptional history of the Jews of Lithuania during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The community was unique, as it excelled in rational religiosity, devotion to science, and a high intellectual level and discipline.
The historical novel follows the lives of five generations of a family, and their experiences in Lithuania, including many important historical events of the time. Members of the family also stayed temporarily in Berlin, visited Palestine, finally emigrated to America, and visited Lithuania after the Holocaust.
Dr. Alex Bloch is an historian who has since his retirement from his university position returned to his early love of historical fiction. Except now, with experience gained, he writes his fiction while applying his knowledge of understanding and interpreting past events in the light of the times they occurred. In addition to professional publications, he has written five novels: The Road Taken, The Cathedral, Fusion, Fermosa Rosales, and The Coin.
Publisher’s website: http://sbpra.com/AlexBloch
EAN: 9781681814605
A Family Saga: Life and Love Amidst Turmoil and Tragedy takes an in-depth look at the exceptional history of the Jews of Lithuania during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The community was unique, as it excelled in rational religiosity, devotion to science, and a high intellectual level and discipline.
The historical novel follows the lives of five generations of a family, and their experiences in Lithuania, including many important historical events of the time. Members of the family also stayed temporarily in Berlin, visited Palestine, finally emigrated to America, and visited Lithuania after the Holocaust.
Dr. Alex Bloch is an historian who has since his retirement from his university position returned to his early love of historical fiction. Except now, with experience gained, he writes his fiction while applying his knowledge of understanding and interpreting past events in the light of the times they occurred. In addition to professional publications, he has written five novels: The Road Taken, The Cathedral, Fusion, Fermosa Rosales, and The Coin.
Publisher’s website: http://sbpra.com/AlexBloch
EAN: 9781681814605