Another outstanding review for Please Say Kaddish For Me by Rochelle Wisoff-Fields!

If one wants to read a story of family, faith, and the human spirit, author Rochelle Wisoff-Fields transports her readers to the late 1800s as if they’ve ridden a time machine and debarked to witness one of the Jewish peoples’ darkest times in Russian history.

With well-rounded characters and exquisite imagery, Havah Cohen’s survival through not just one but two pogroms takes the reader on an emotional ride of loss, despair, love, hope, and the fight for survival in the novel Please Say Kaddish for Me.

Havah’s journey knots the reader’s heartstrings in empathy from the very first pages when the loss of her family leaves her orphaned and wandering alone. The courage and determination found in such a young girl reminds us how buoyant one can be in the face of hardship and obstacles, how faith carries one through so many tribulations, and how no one is really alone. With the help of strangers, and even a Christian household who harbors Havah, the story delves into compassion, friendship, and the dangers in befriending anyone of the Jewish faith.

This book will keep the reader lost in a time warp that he will perhaps want to exit, but at the same time, stay. The characters are real, the descriptions vivid, the dialogue relevant to the era and often witty, and the historical setting accurate. So many times in the story it makes one wonder if the author had lived another life! This book will give the reader pause.

• Linda Kasten, author and literary agent