Meyer Levin
1) Citizens
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For Chicago physician Mitch Wilner, July 4, 1937, began as a typical holiday-a leisurely afternoon at the beach with his wife and young children. But when a peaceful protest erupts in violence, and Mitch sees unarmed steel mill strikers attacked by the local police, he finds himself thrust into the heart of America's labor struggles.
In the days and months that follow, Mitch witnesses the aggressive strike-breaking tactics used by the steel mill...
2) The Harvest
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When the Chaimovitch family fled the Russian pogroms at the turn of the twentieth century, they hoped their family could flourish in Eretz Yisroel, the land of their ancestors. Twenty years later, they are thriving in Palestine and sending their youngest son Mati off to attend an American college. But the difficulties of their old lives in Russia are harder to shake than they thought.
With the rumblings of World War II comes anti-Jewish violence...
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Science and mysticism collide in this romantic fable from the acclaimed author of Compulsion and The Old Bunch.
When Félicité, a young French researcher, travels to Jerusalem to study the secrets of life alongside renowned professor Uriel Buchhalter, she is surprised to find the older man's heart as engaging as his mind. But their relationship is complicated when American scientist, Joe Schwartz-bitterly jealous of his rival's personal and professional...