Lable Braun: 4 books

A young girl's world is falling apart. Her mother is deathly ill. Her over-bearing father lives in fear and has narrowed her world to the little farm they work in the Pale of Russia. Now rumors have come that the Czar has commanded the Cossacks to attack her little village. Only her frail mother's...

Finally! All the threads of the first three Lamed-Vav stories are woven together into a climactic tale. As Raizel and Valery race to save Nissim from certain death at the hands of a sinister Gestapo general, there is much more at stake than their son's life. The Lamed-Vav's essence of kindness and compassion may not prove to be enough. The dark power of the Golem may be neccesary.

The legend of the Lamed-Vav that began in “Simple Chaim” now moves to the next generation in “The Jewish Cossack”. Nissim Kozlovsky has been raised by his mother, Raizel, to believe in the legend of the Lamed-Vav, 36 hidden people who are the repositories of God's compassion in this world....

This story is a prequel to "Simple Chaim". Readers of that story will know that Raizel's father, Nathan, was a very hard-hearted man. Nathan was about as far away from the path of the Lamed-Vav, the path of compassion and simple kindness, as a human-being can get. But before we can learn...