Retired New York City teacher and community newspaper editor Howard Schwach is a published author with several young adult educational books and four adult novels under his belt. He spends much of his time when he is not writing facilitating groups of senior citizens who want to empty their bucket lists by fulfilling their dream of writing and publishing a novel. Schwach’s first novel centered on the tragic crash of American Airlines Flight 587 in his hometown of Rockaway (NY) on November 12, 2001. His second, the first in the celebrated Dave Rifkin Mystery series, The Masada Complex, centered on the age-old conflict between Jews and Palestinians in Israel and the kidnapping of a group of aging Jewish tourists from New York City visiting the Holy Land. That led to the second Rifkin mystery, Ain’t Love Enough, set in Music City, Nashville (TN). The Cahokia Conspiracy, the third novel in the Dave Rifkin series takes Dave and his wife, Linda, to the remains of an ancient Mississippian city on the Mississippi River, following the spread of an ancient virus that reveals a conspiracy to cover up the genesis of the virus by a greedy pharmaceutical executive.
TO DIE IN JERUSALEM
A Novel
by Howard Schwach
TO DIE IN JERUSALEM
A Novel
by Howard Schwach
Published Jul 21, 2023
495 Pages
Genre: FICTION / Historical / World War II
Book Details
A Seminal Battle Between Diaspora Jews and the Israeli Government
To Die In Jerusalem is a novel that delves into the heart of the conflict between American diaspora Jews and the right-wing government of Israel. Morris Gruenwald is eight years old and living in the Kisvarda (Hungary) when the Jews of the town are sent to the death camp at Auschwitz. There, he watches his mother and younger sister marched off to the gas chamber. He survives and is smuggled to the shores of Palestine, evading the British blockade. He is sent to a kibbutz and fights in the 1948 war. Morris believes that his entire family is dead and that his future lies in Israel. He fights again in Israel’s various wars against the Arabs – in Suez in 1956 and in Jerusalem in 1967. A random photograph of him praying at the newly-liberated Western Wall in 1967 is seen by his aunt, who left Kisvarda for the United States. His family brings him to America, where he becomes a pro-Israel Senator until an increasingly right-wing Israeli government and the feelings of his grandchildren bring him to the realization that he can no longer support an anti-democratic regime.
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