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Gracia Sabot persuades her brother, Elias, a physician, to take her with him on a perilous voyage from their home in Milan to England, where he has been summoned to treat the dying King Henry IV. But Gracia’s passage is fraught with danger from the start. As a Jew, she is forbidden entry into England—only her brother’s mission grants her temporary safety.
When Elias dies, Gracia is left vulnerable, alone, and accused of regicide. With no one left who can protect her, Gracia must use her wits to survive, and, in a moment of desperation, she makes a most unlikely choice.
Remember Me Not is a historical novel set in medieval England. In 1070, French Jews arrived at the invitation of William the Conqueror. But two centuries later, the protective status he offered was stripped away, and they became targets with few choices: expulsion or conversion. Remember Me Not explores what happened to those Jews who chose to remain in England.
Ostroff clearly understands that historical fiction needs more than costumes and famous names. It needs pressure. It needs the past to feel close enough to breathe on your neck.
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A thought-provoking , powerful novel of survival and social change
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The Wall at the Sugar Factory
When Shaindel Pogrebiski’s life is shattered and uprooted by the senseless looting and murder that follow the civil war in Ukraine in 1919, she needs to figure out how to survive. With only her young daughter, Shaindel must flee the turmoil. But where will she go? The world seems indifferent to the bloodbath upending Shaindel’s homeland, so who will take in the refugees fleeing for their lives?
The era of the anti-Jewish riots, the pogroms in Ukraine from 1918-1921, has taken on new scrutiny. Some scholars suggest that this period which resulted in great atrocities against the shtetl Jews, perpetuated by their neighbors, was really the beginning of the Holocaust. The pogroms normalized the slaughter and created ready and willing executioners for the Nazis. Their goal of making Europe Judenrein became easier.
The Wall at the Sugar Factory is Sherry V. Ostroff’s fifth book.
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EXPULSION
Basseva Seneor has choices, but none are good. She can choose baptism to save herself from the brutality of the Inquisition. But that would mean giving up the man she loves. Or she can leave her homeland and never see her family again. In Medieval Spain, after the Edict of Expulsion was signed into law in March 1492, there were few options for a Jew.
An historical novel about the horrors of the Spanish Inquisition, and the injustice of the Edict of Expulsion, and one woman's attempt to survive them both.
If only one book were to be chosen about the Inquisition's experience, it should be EXPULSION.
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The Lucky One
SYNOPSIS: 1918 was a terrible time to be Jewish in Russia. The Revolution was raging and anti-Jewish riots were claiming thousands of lives and destroying property. Escape was difficult and dangerous. One way out was to flee to the United States, but the government was in no mood to extend a hand to refugees desperately seeking safe harbor. Into this milieu, Ita Pogrebisky, The Lucky One, was born.
Readers who enjoy memoirs, and especially those who look for sagas of struggle to survive and flourish against enormous odds, will appreciate Sherry V. Ostroff's attention to bringing her mother's words to life
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A thought-provoking , powerful novel of survival and social change
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THE LUCKY ONE, CALEDONIA, MANNAHATTA, EXPULSION, THE WALL AT THE SUGAR FACTORY, & REMEMBER ME NOT are available in paperback, e-book, and audio-book formats at
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