{"product_id":"books-melnitz-by-charles-lewinsky","title":"Melnitz","description":"1871. Cattle-dealer Solomon Meijer has made a reputation for himself as one  of the few honest Jews in Endingen, a rare Swiss town in which  Jews are allowed to reside. He leads a largely untroubled life, rewarded by his work and comforted at home by his wife and two daughters. But all of this is set to end when he answers a knock at the door in the middle of the night. On the doorstep stands his young distant cousin, Janki, half-dead and begging for refuge. The pitiful figure is invited in and given a coveted place in the bosom of the family, but when Janki recovers and regains his ambition and his fine-looks, he will change the Meijer family's lives for generations to come...     In the tradition of the great family romances of the nineteenth century, Melnitz is the saga of the Swiss-Jewish Meijer family, spanning five generations from the Franco-Prussian War to World War II. It is a novel of fate, fortune and great falls; a homage to the sunken world of yiddish culture and a celebration of the enduring spirit of biting Jewish humour.","brand":"World of Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53674601742609,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781848877672.jpg?v=1781534406","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/books-melnitz-by-charles-lewinsky","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}