Yesterday's Child is the gripping and unusual tale of a courageous young man who, as a young boy, suffers the tragic loss of his mother. He then goes to live with his father and step mother in Cape Town. When he reaches adulthood his seemingly brilliant and joyful future is suddenly shattered by startling revelations about his past. He embarks on a voyage into the past, a voyage whose outcome will determine the very essence of his present and his future. First published by CIS in 1992 and then reprinted in 2002, Yesterday's child became a best seller in the Jewish world. It is now being...

Life for the Wilson family living in a small English town was picture perfect. But when her young son receives a toy train as a gift, Dorothy reacts with strange agitation. Soon she is having recurrences of an inexplicable old nightmare involving a terrible train crash. Why does it all seem so real? And why is it always the same? Then the family is suddenly plunged into confusion by the sudden death of Dorothy's mother who, with her last gasping breath, reveals that Dorothy is not really her child. Dorothy is stunned. Who is she? Who are her real parents? Are they still alive? How can she...

No one knows why John Carter has a number on his arm, obviously from a German Concentration Camp.He himself was never given a satisfactory answer about a tatoo which seems to have been with him all his life. His past - a dark mystery. His present - a confused whirl of emotions and questions. His future - unknown and full of danger. This novel, first published by Targum Press in 1995, takes the reader on an action-packed and suspenseful journey across three continents and five decades as Carter attempts to unravel the secret of his past - and build a future as a Jew.

Jenny Reynolds, a young South African convert to Judaism, was full of eager anticipation as she set out from Johannesburg on the "March of the Living" tour. Over the next few weeks, as part of an organized groups of thousands of holocaust survivors and their families, she would visit the scenes of the German destruction of European Jewry during the Second World War. It promised to be a profound intellectual and emotional experience, an experience that would be burned into her memory for the rest of her life. Her pilgrimage to the scenes of the holocaust does indeed become an experience that...

The Zanger children are on holiday in the small coastal town of Shipston. Shortly after their arrival there is a massive storm. The next morning they find a bottle with a note inside it in a rock pool on the beach. This leads them into an exciting and breath taking adventure where they explore some mysterious islands and rescue a kidnapped prince. This story appeared in serial form over many editions of Concord Magazine, England

The Dinansky Family have gone to spend their holiday in a caravan park in the seaside resort of Quinton. They have taken with them two old transmitter sets (walkie-talkies) from the Second World War which their grandfather has lent them. Walking along the beach, at some distance from one another, the two older children are talking to one another on the transmitters. Chaya trips and the dials shift frequency and she hears from the machine a man's voice, a voice full of terror. "Please, please help If anyone can hear me, please help." Immediately they are all plunged into a breathtaking and...

This is a collection of Nineteen modern day Jewish Fiction Stories written and published by Dr. Ruth Benjamin. Most of these have, over the years, been published in either the Jewish Homemaker in New York, or in the Concord Magazine, London.

"WE don't have any mercy," announced the muffled voice on the phone. "We did not have mercy on your wife and we won't have mercy on your parents in law and on your daughter, and even on you, Andrew Sneddon" "My...my...wife?" stammered Andrew. He had just finished eating with Andy, his daughter, and the two were watching a video, a Walt Disney fantasia which had the child totally engrossed. He felt his hand becoming wet and sticky on the phone. "my..my wife.." he repeated. "Your late wife" the voice whispered. There was a click as the phone went dead. We are then taken to a hospital, into the...

'He had not been in this part of the attic before. Probably no one had for many years. Next to him was a battered cabin trunk, the kind which was used on the old Union Castle Shipping Lines. The box had a lock of it but in manoeuvring it a little he found it suddenly releasing itself in his hand. He gasped as he saw some of the contents of the trunk. What were these things? Where did they come from? He picked up a tiny book which was encased in a silver cover and opened it curiously. This was not German or French; in fact the letters were not the same, not like any letters he had seen. He...

"You can't keep me here forever," came a weak voice that seemed to come from far below the ground. Esty felt herself go cold. Was she imagining things? Where had the voice come from? She put her ear to the ground, trying to hear something more, but there was only the far distant sound of the highway traffic and the song of the birds above her. The Greenberg and Golding children find themselves in the centre of an action packed mystery. A Jewish Childrens Novel which could keep the interest of all ages.