![]() ![]() Her other novels include Promised Land, This Burning Harvest, Leah's Children, West to Eden, Mothers, Years of Dreams and That Year of Our War. Her novel, Leah's Journey won the National Jewish Book Award for fiction in 1979, and her second novel Four Days won the Federation Arts and Letters Award. She is the author of a series of children's books on women in the professions entitled What Can She Be? She has also written novels for young adults, Ten Traditional Jewish Stories, and she edited a prize-winning anthology A Treasury of Jewish Literature. Her work has been widely anthologized and translated. Subsequently, her short fiction and critical essays have appeared in Commentary, McCalls, Redbook, Ladies Home Journal, Mademoiselle, Ms., Chatelaine, Hadassah Magazine and numerous other magazines and journals. While still an undergraduate at Brandeis, she was a winner of the Seventeen magazine short story contest where her first nationally published work appeared. She was a coordinator in the Department of Jewish Education at National Hadassah and served as Public Relations Director of the Baruch College of the City University of New York. Gloria Goldreich graduated from Brandeis University and did graduate work in Jewish history at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Thank you to Sourcebooks Landmark for providing me with a copy in exchange for an honest review. Pick up a copy from your favourite retailer or from one of the following links. It’s a pensive, affecting, powerful tale by Goldreich that highlights humanities incredible ability to love and still be kind, compassionate, and resilient even in the face of unimaginable evil. Overall, The Paris Children is a beautiful blend of horrifying facts and evocative fiction. And the plot is a rich, poignant tale of life, loss, love, friendship, family, perseverance, survival, betrayal, courage, sacrifice, Jewish traditions, war, and the important role played by the Jewish scouts in the French Resistance. The characters are selfless, brave, and vulnerable. The Paris Children is a compelling, immersive, beautifully written tale set in France between 19 that takes you into the lives of the Levy family, especially Madeleine, a young Jewish woman who spent the majority of the war helping to hide and save as many Jewish children as possible. With a questionable future ahead of them, all Madeleine can do is continue fighting and hope that her spirit-and the nation’s-won’t be broken.Ī remarkable, paranoramic novel, The Paris Children is a story of love and tragedy that illuminates the power of hope and courage in the face of adversity. And amidst the impending horror and doubt, Madeleine’s relationship with Claude, a young Jewish Resistance fighter, as passionate about saving vulnerable children as she is, deepens. ![]() But as the Paris she loves is transformed into a theater of tension and hatred, many people are tempted to abandon the cause-and the country. Madeleine offers them comfort and strength while working with other members of the resistance to smuggle them into safer territories. Paris is full of children like Anna-frightened and starving, innocent casualties of a war barely begun. When Madeleine meets a small girl in a tattered coat with the hollow look of one forced to live a nightmare-a young Jewish refugee from Germany named Anna-she knows that she cannot stand idly by. Young Madeleine Levy-granddaughter of Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish World War I hero-steps bravely into a new wave of resistance and becomes the guardian of lost children. ![]() A dark shadow falls over Europe as Adolf Hitler’s regime gains momentum, leaving the city of Paris on the brink of occupation. Inspired by the true story of one woman’s fight to survive during the 20th century’s darkest hour ![]()
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