I was born in Paris, France from a secular Jewish family. My parents had survived the Second World War and were still healing from the horrors of the Holocaust. My upbringing took place in a very protected Jewish environment even though our family was not attending synagogue or keeping any strict Jewish lifestyle.
As a result of losing her dad in Auschwitz at age 15, my mother had developed a complex about being Jewish. It had become our secret in the community as she constantly reminded me that we should keep our Jewish identity to our own family. To this day, my mother believes that God died during the Holocaust. As for my father, he still claims to be an atheist. Nevertheless, even if only by birth and mostly socially, my Jewish identity always felt like a reality.
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THEY HAVE CONSPIRED AGAINST YOU: Responding to the New Anti-Semitism
I am the author of They Have Conspired Against You: Responding to the New Anti-Semitism. This new book is the fruit of almost seven years of research and writing. It all started when I decided to gather research on what seemed to be a new trend of anti-Semitism that was surfacing worldwide with the advent of the new Intifada in the Fall of 2000. The result is the chilling reality found in this new book. Jewish people are again the target of Anti-Semitism around the world, with a great emphasis on European Jews. My hope for this book is that it will expose, educate and call to action.
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COMING SOON! OLIVIER MELNICK'S NEW NOVEL! COMING SOON!
THE RABBI'S TRIAD COMING SOON! COMING SOON!
When Seattle Jewish Museum Curator Ira Perlstein received a mysterious package a week prior to his daughter’s Bat Mitzvah, he was unaware that it would change the course of his life. He will come in contact with a collection of ancient Eastern European artifacts holding a secret that could lead him to the “Greatest Treasure in mankind’s history”. The search for the complete “Rabbi’s Triad” commences and will take Ira and his family on a dangerous path as ex-Nazis and Islamists are working together to acquire the Triad first. Can Ira receive help from an obscure Rebbe from Lithuania in deciphering the coded message of the Triad before it is too late?
Olivier Melnick’s second book and first novel takes the reader to France, Lithuania and the United-States for a story of greed and power. The characters converge onto the same collection of artifacts and all find something different on the way: Death, family ties and even a stronger faith in God.
Does “The Rabbi’s Triad” truly hold the greatest treasure to mankind?
Where will it take YOU as you search for it?
