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Synopsis:
The
disappearance of his great-uncle Samuel during World War II has shaped the life
of the young university lecturer, Shmulik Kaplan. As part of his Master's
Thesis on the history of Germany between the wars, he sets out to try and
discover what happened to his uncle – an outstanding athlete who managed to
leave Germany in 1935, and yet incomprehensibly, returned to Berlin, and then
vanished without a trace.
From
his book lined office at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, to Berlin and to
Mont St. Michel in France, and through the dusty WW II archives of the German
army, the quest takes him on a rollercoaster journey of personal discovery and
emotion. The search uncovers events and materials that no-one had ever heard of
before, or seen, since the days of the German occupation of France.
Author:
Born in New York City of
German-Jewish immigrant parents, Richard Steinitz studied at the State
University of NY at Buffalo, and has been living in Israel since 1968. When not
writing novels, he reads them in great quantities, and works for a
multi-national educational publisher. He and his wife Naomi are the parents of
two grown children.
Though his own parents escaped the
Holocaust, it has had an enduring effect on his life, and his writing.
Researching the background for his
books is his favorite activity, after reading mysteries! Kaplan's Quest
is his second novel.
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