Melnitz

In 1871, when a distant relative knocks on the Meijers' door at night, no one in the family suspects how radically their lives will change. Janki Meijer, having escaped from the French army, shakes up the family of livestock dealer Solomon Meijer, who is known for his honesty in the Jewish village of Endingen. The development of this far-reaching Jewish family's story up to the year 1945 is narrated by Lewinsky with such creative power that the reader inevitably becomes a anxious and hopeful part of the family. "He does this with an unlikely richness of cultural history, with characters of rare vitality, and with a keen sense for the ordinary and extraordinary aspects of the Jewish condition." - Andreas Isenschmid, personal recommendation.