In Rochelle Wisoff-Fields’s Havah Gitterman Trilogy – Please Say Kaddish For Me, From Silt and Ashes, and As One Must, One Can – she introduces us to Havah’s extended family and friends. In the first novel, her immediate family is butchered in a pogrom and she has to flee for her life. The rabbi’s family takes her in as their own and this is where the tree grows many branches and flourishes.

Not just a series about Jewish families, but of love, honor, commitment, prejudices, bigotry, forgiveness, philanthropy, tolerance, compassion, and faith that every human being can relate to. These are must reads from teens on up. Mankind should know of the atrocities of pogroms and the perseverance of the survivors. Thank you, Rochelle, for educating us all. We are looking forward to the companion coffee table book, A Stone for the Journey.