In Dahlia Japhet's new historical fiction novel, "The Numismatist's Wife" (published by Archway Publishing), a young Jewish woman must come to terms with her religion and how it affects her life and her family during World War I.

In Germany 1912, 17-year-old Ilse Ehrenkrantz longs for a path that is different from her middle-class traditional Jewish life. Fascinated by her artistic explorations of Christian symbols, Ilse immerses herself in a world outside her family. This decision propels her into a relationship with her cousin, Georg, a storyteller and passionate coin collector, who abandons Judaism for a Prussian military career. Ilse's choices set in motion a series of consequences that divide her family for generations.

Rich with details of the era, the novel weaves together an exploration of deeply held religious views against a background of modernity to reveal the many intricacies facing Jewish Germans at the turn of the 20th century. Japhet hopes the "complexities facing Jewish Germans during that era resonate with readers."

The book is available for purchase at: https://www.amazon.com/Numismatist's-Wife-Dahlia-Japhet/dp/1480858048.

About the Author
Dahlia Japhet was born in Israel and educated in Israel, the United States and Canada. She studied at the University of Michigan and Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She received her master's degree in medieval studies at the University of Toronto and then studied at the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, the Jewish Theological Seminary and at YIVO, New York City. Japhet taught for over 10 years, first at City University of New York and then at Bar Ilan University in Israel. She then became a banker. She also began studying German and German history. She currently lives in New York City with her two sheepdogs.

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