Vienna Prelude
About this book
Predating the events of The Zion Chronicles, Vienna Prelude opens in pre-World War II Austria. Elisa Lindheim, a violinist with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, is of Jewish heritage but has adopted an Aryan stage name. Thus she is able to travel and play in Germany even though a 1935 law forbids Jewish musicians to do so. John Murphy, a reporter for the New York Times in Berlin and Austria, becomes linked with English politicians in a plan to overthrow Hitler. Elisa and John's mutual connections with the Jewish underground entangle them in a web of intrigue, danger, and conspiracy. - Publisher.
Subjects
- americans
- antisemitism
- elisa lindheim (fictitious character)
- fiction
- fiction, historical
- fiction, historical, general
- fiction, religious
- fiction, romance, suspense
- historical fiction
- history
- jewish musicians
- jewish women
- jews
- jews, fiction
- journalists
- journalists, fiction
- musicians, fiction
- vienna (austria), fiction
- women musicians