Title: Vienna Prelude
Description: 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, Jewish musicians, Jewish women, Jews, Journalists, Women musicians, Musicians, fiction, Jews, fiction, Journalists, fiction, Vienna (austria), fiction, Fiction, romance, suspense, Fiction, historical, Fiction, religious, Fiction, historical, general, History, Historical fiction
Places: Austria, Vienna (Austria)