Love and Liberation

After two millennia of poverty isolation religious fundamentalism within their community and subjugation from without Jews across Europe joined the legions of Napoleon to tear down the ghetto walls. This epic romance told through the eyes of idealists entrepreneurs puritans prostitutes tyrants and fools documents their struggle their entry into the mainstream and the nascence of Reform Judaism.</p><p>…a wealth of interesting historical accounts…Fertig is a fresh voice in Jewish historical fiction.<br>—<I>The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles</I></p><p><I>Love and Liberation</I> is an inspiring and beautiful book.<br>—UCLA Historian Stanley Wolpert</p><p>(<I>Love and Liberation</I>) is a beautifully woven tapestry of warm blooded people and cold blooded history.<br>—Actor Edward Asner<p>Fertig has created a magnificent work.<br>—Allen Freehling Rabbi Emeritus of University Synagogue Executive Director of the Los Angeles Commission on Human Relations</p>