The Torah of Saint Nicholas Church

By Myron Crespin

When New York Sofer, Rabbi Max Rabinowitz, is called upon to repair a rain damaged Torah from a small synagogue in Oregon, he never realized how his life would change. Within that Torah Max finds the secrets of hidden treasure, remembrances of his escape from the Nazis before the fall of Czechoslovakia, and discovering the true events of the death of his father. Max realizes the damaged Torah, was scribed by his father Rabbi Aaron Rabinowitz, a renowned Prague Sofer, before he perished at Auschwitz. Strange however, Max discovers this completed Torah was found deep in The Church of St Nicholas, Prague, after the Russians left. Finally the found Torah, Aaron's Torah, took its remarkable journey to Oregon.While repairing the damaged Torah, Max uncovers hidden maps to the location of priceless Van Gogh paintings his father hid, before the German invasion. Thus starts the circle of events that follows the damaged Torah from Eugene, Oregon to New York, then to the sewers of Prague, on to Munich, Germany, and finally back to a New York Auction House. Unknown to Max are powerful men also looking for the location of the valuable treasures hidden in the Torah, and they are willing to kill for it.This exciting treasure hunt first revealed by the discovery of the Torah in the Church Of Saint Nicholas, is overshadowed by stolen Van Gogh's, the German invasion of Czechoslovakia, and the eighty thousand Jews who perished in the Holocaust. It is also a romantic adventure story of Max and his son Avi finding love and their roots.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1481933418
• ISBN13: 9781481933414
• Release Date: January 2013
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 358 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 0.8" x 5.3"