The Genizah

Definition: Genizah is a storage area in a Jewish synagogue or cemetery designated for the temporary storage of worn-out Hebrew-language books and papers on religious topics prior to proper cemetery burial.

In the novel The Genizah, Wayne Karlin enters its pages as a character in his own novel, reimagining his family's lives-and fate-if they had not come to America but stayed in his mother's village in Poland where the rest of her extended family were murdered by the Nazis in 1941.

Karlin com...