Jacob's Courage: A Holocaust Love Story

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 524 pages
• Published by: MAZO PUBLISHERS
• Edition: Revised Edition March 15, 2007
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 9657344247
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-9657344248
• Book Dimensions: 9 x 6.2 x 1.4 inches
• Weighs: 1.7 pounds

Product Description
"Jacob's Courage" is a gorgeous love story set against the backdrop of the Holocaust. "Jacob's Courage" chronicles the dazzling beauty of passionate love and enduring bravery in a lurid world where the innocent are brutally murdered. In 1939, seventeen-year-old Austrians Jacob Silverman and Rachael Goldberg are bright, talented, and deeply in love. Because they are Jews, their families lose everything; their jobs, possessions and money, contact with loved ones, and finally their liberty at the hands of the Nazis. Jacob and Rachael "grow up" during the Holocaust. As teenagers, they survive the beatings, rapes, and murderous acts of the Nazis, enjoy the physical and spiritual pleasure of being in love and are able to become husband and wife in the Theresienstadt Ghetto, before being imprisoned in Auschwitz. Eventually Jacob and Rachael become Partisans to fight the Nazi enemy. While "Jacob's Courage" is a novel, the author, Charles Weinblatt, has based portions of the story on his mother's experience. Clara Volk Weinblatt was a childhood victim of pogroms in her Russian Jewish village. Much of Weinblatt's maternal extended family perished in the Holocaust. Great grandparents, great-aunts and uncles and many cousins disappeared into the void of Nazi annihilation. This book is dedicated to the 6,000,000 Jews who perished in the Holocaust. They have been lost, but will never be forgotten. "Jacob's Courage" is Holocaust literature for adult readers.

Reader Reviews
This historic novel offers a well researched love store set in the middle of the horror that was Nazi Germany in the 30's and 40's. The book is well thought out and written but suffers somewhat from numerous typos/editing miscues. Hopefully a second edition will correct what the publisher missed to make it truly a thought provoking read. The historic references appear to be well researched. Hats off to a fine first effort from Mr. Weinblatt.