What does the Bible disclose about the future? How does what the Bible reveals coincide with the prophetic messages of the Spirit of Prophecy, and do they indicate that there is a final and complete fulfillment of prophetic time and events in the future? Could believers have read these writings about prophetic time incorrectly, thinking there are no more prophecies linked to time? Several prophecies in Daniel's last chapters and the book of Revelation provide evidence that prophetic timing...

Learning about ones ancestors can be fulfilling and enlightening. It can also be the beginning of an engrossing novel that combines truth and fiction to create a compelling story.John Bartels Jew traces his Jewish family from biblical times to the end of World War II. You will cry in despair as you visit Soviet slave camps. Reading the story of his family will catapult your consciousness into a region of the mind that lies somewhere between darkness and light. Your teeth w...

The first three chapters of the book offer the author's depiction of his life leading up to his cryptic odyssey through various countries and continents of the world. The symptoms and signs of his mental illness are evident throughout the book, but they do not detract from a reader's comprehension and enjoyment of the storyline as it develops. The descriptions of his experiences are generally quite lucid, educational, and entertaining. He offers little-known information relating to the fie...

You’ve built a successful business. Now it’s time to build your legacy.What comes after success? For high-net-worth business owners, transitioning from the day-to-day grind to long-term wealth optimization is a whole new challenge—and one you don’t have to face alone.In Navigating the Wealth Transition Maze, advisors Paul McCormack and John Bartels guide you through the critical decisions that will define your next chapter. This isn’t about theories—it’s about actionable st...

The gripping tale about two boys, once as close as brothers, who find themselves on opposite sides of the Holocaust."A novel of survival, justice and redemption...riveting." —Chicago Tribune, on Once We Were BrothersElliot Rosenzweig, a respected civic leader and wealthy philanthropist, is attending a fundraiser when he is suddenly accosted and accused of being a former Nazi SS officer named Otto Piatek, the Butcher of Zamosc. Alt...

A boy is caught up in the German invasion of Poland in 1939. His life is rapidly changed. His family is destroyed. An unbelievable story about escape, intrigue, survival and the miraculous ability of one young man to outwit and outlive his gestapo torturers.

The deeply moving, Pulitzer Prize–nominated memoir of a young Jewish woman's imprisonment at the Auschwitz death camp.In 1944, on the morning of her twenty-third birthday, Isabella Leitner and her family were deported to Auschwitz, the Nazi extermination camp. There, she and her siblings relied on one another's love and support to remain hopeful in the midst of the great evil surrounding them.In Fragments of Isabella, Leitner reveals a glimpse of hum...

"A layered, sweeping panorama of 20th Century Jewish life and identity." — Publishers WeeklyYoram Kaniuk has been hailed as "one of the most innovative, brilliant novelists in the Western World," and The Last Jew is his exhilarating masterwork ( The New York Times).Like Gabriel García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude, The Last Jew is a sweeping saga that captures the troubled history and culture of an enti...

Penned by me, a survivor and eye witness to the chillimg events that took place on the 9th of November 1938 in all of Germany and the following day in Austria. Although barely past my 15th birthday. I remembered everything that had transpired and detailed the happenings in my family as well as revisiting the horrendous anti - Jewish violence executed on such a large scale by the Nazis, in my book Kristallnacht. This November, 2013, I and others will commemorate the 75th anniversary of Kris...

In 1939, Samelson, now a professor at Trinity University (Tex.), was an 11-year old violin prodigy living in Poland. A year later, he had a secret bar mitzvah in a Nazi labor camp. His mother and sister had been sent to their deaths; he and his brother escaped and became members of a group of partisans. Captured, they were returned to a camp and later liberated to join a father subsumed by the hatred that had helped him to survive, and a postwar world in which many Nazis went unpunished. E...

“If this is your first taste of Howard, I envy you.”—From the Introduction by George R.R. MartinAcclaimed cult author Waldrop's stories are sophisticated, magical recombinations of the stuff our pop-culture dreams are made of. Open this book and encounter jazz singers, robotic cartoon ducks, nosferatu, angry gorillas, and, of course, the dodo.The first paperback (and twentieth anniversary) edition of a landmark debut collection. Waldrop’s capacious, encyclopedic knowledge o...