Product Description

What IS the truth about Marvin Kalish? And how does it bind Yudel Wolfzahn, Zelig Kropf, Bunny Falk, Dawn Kupchinsky and Marvin Kalish together in an elaborate relationship with implications far beyond the perimeters of their own lives? The events in this fast-paced novel of mystery and intrigue are set in present-day New York City, Italy and 1940s Germany. The story contains an exciting blend of mystical, adoption and Jewish themes along with wry humor and pathos.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2240266 in Books
• Published on: 1992-10
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 280 pages

Review
"... an entertaining mystery at the same time that it treats some serious emotional and spiritual themes with skill and tact." -- Books in Canada

"...This is an absolute page turner..." -- Booklist

From the Inside Flap
New York, 1981: Up and coming stand-up comedian MARVIN KALISH can finally see his career taking off. But someone is anxious to derail that career... even if the price is MURDER...

New York, 1953: Beautiful secretary BUNNY FALK has gotten herself pregnant after a crazy affair with a married German refugee. Although she makes the decision to give the child up for adoption, she forever wonders what happened to her little boy. But their paths are destined to cross--can she save his life?...

Munich, 1942: Young ZELIG KROPF faces deportation from Munich. As he waits in the train station, an elderly passenger approaches him with a torn ticket and a secret. Zelig Kropf survives the war, but so do the ticket and its unsolved mysteries...

Hamburg, 1938: Dismissed by his parents as hooligans, YUDEL WOLFZAHN knows that the Nazis mean business, especially when it comes to the Jews of Germany. A visa for the United States and a ticket on the S.S. Manhattan, promise a new life but New York is so far away and Germany is home...

About the Author
Martin Samuel Cohen was born and grew up in New York City. He currently lives with his wife and three children in British Columbia, Canada, where he serves as a rabbi to a local congregation. In addition to his rabbinic ordination, he has earned a Ph.D. in the history of ancient Judaism and has published papers and a book in the field of pre-kabalistic Jewish mysticism. The Truth About Marvin Kalish is the first of a series of provocative mysteries by Cohen as novelist.