{"product_id":"melnitz","title":"Charles Lewinsky: Melnitz [2016] paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e1871. 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...   \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the tradition of the great family romances of the nineteenth century,\u003ci\u003e Melnitz \u003c\/i\u003eis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lewinsky, Charles \u0026 Whiteside, Shaun (Translator)","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":46518038135123,"sku":"9781848877672","price":5.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/lewinsky-charles-whiteside-shaun-translator-charles-lewinsky-melnitz-2016-paperback-9781848877672-1166479870.jpg?v=1747080323","url":"https:\/\/theirishbookshop.live\/products\/melnitz","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}