Return From Captivity [Hardcover]

Naftali: ”Who am I – a Cherokee warrior, or a Jew?”
Chanale: “Where are my brothers and sister? Why don’t they come for me?”
Berel: “Should I keep my promise and marry Toiby? How can she know what it means to be a good Jewish wife and mother?”
Mina Rose: “I must leave my father’s house, but I have nowhere else to go!”

In the popular novel The Captives, readers met – and learned to love -- Toiby and Naftali, two Jews abducted as children and raised as Cherokee, and Berel Weinberg, who miraculously rescues them from captivity.

But the story is far from over ...

How can a Cherokee brave wrap tefillin on an arm that knew how to wield a deadly tomahawk and a forehead formerly decorated with warpaint? Can a girl versed in the ways of native American women transform into an eishes chayil? Will the Jewish community they are seeking to join even accept them? And what about the little girl fleeing an orphanage, embarking on a dangerous journey with only an imaginary friend as her guide?

Set in a small Jewish pioneering community in an increasingly tense pre-Civil-War border state, Return From Captivity is popular author Rochel Istrin’s can’t-put-it-down novel of adventure, discovery, and the infinite power of the Jewish neshamah to return to its people.

Binding: Hardcover
Size: 6" x 9"
Pages: 352
Language: English
Published By: ArtScroll Shaar Press
Release Date: 05/18/2023
ISBN-10: 1422638081
ISBN #: 9781422638088

Return From Captivity [Hardcover]
By: Rochel Istrin

About the author;
Rochel Istrin grew up in Independence, Missouri and received her B.A. from Washington University in St. Louis. After working for several years as a teacher and parent trainer at the Judevine Center for Autistic Children she made aliya to Israel in 1973 where she married and raised a family. In Israel Rochel attended nursing school at Laniado Hospital in Netanya, and is currently employed at the Mayenei HaYeshua hospital as a senior nurse in the newborn nursery. Searching is her first novel, a tapestry of real events woven toggether with her rich imagination and life experience. A sequel is being prepared for publication, and the reader is invited to join the Levine family as their lives unfold from the early years of the twentieth century until the first years of the founding of the State of Israel.