Was ist ihr Beruf?!: What is your Calling?!

By Eliyahu ben Zvi-Sara

Was ist Ihr Beruf?-What is Your Calling?-is a sweeping work of historical fiction that traces one family's endurance across millennia, culminating in a single, life-or-death moment under Nazi rule.
Spanning from the Babylonian Exile and the Persian Empire to the Carpathian Mountains of Eastern Europe, this volume follows the HaCohen tribe as it survives conquest, migration, religious transformation, and relentless persecution. Grounded in documented history yet driven by intimate human experience, the narrative weaves together trade routes, empires, sects, and faith into a continuous story of adaptation and resilience.
At its core stands Zvi-Yoseph, a young Jew from a remote Carpathian village, whose life hinges on a single shouted question in a Nazi selection line: "Was ist Ihr Beruf?"-What is your calling? In a world where the wrong answer means death, identity itself becomes a weapon, a disguise, and a test of courage. A chance act of solidarity with a Ukrainian master machinist binds their fates together and carries them deep into the underground factories of the Harz-Kohnstein Mountains, where the Third Reich's most secret weapons are forged by slave labor.
This book is both epic and personal: a chronicle of Jewish migration from antiquity to the Holocaust and a close study of how skill, ingenuity, loyalty, and moral resolve can mean survival in the darkest imaginable conditions. The tenth installment in the Chronology / Overcome series focuses on World War II and its aftermath, revealing how ancient decisions echo into modern history.
To understand who we are, we must understand where we came from-and what it cost to endure.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GN9KM8CG
• ISBN13: 9798245870694
• Release Date: February 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 314 Pages
• Weight: 0.69 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.0" x 8.0"