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 …
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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.
464 pages
English language
Published July 4, 2004 by Tyndale House.
Subjects
- Lindheim, Elisa (Fictitious character) -- Fiction.
- Americans -- Austria -- Fiction.
- Jewish musicians -- Fiction.
- Jews -- Austria -- Fiction.
- Women musicians -- Fiction.
- Antisemitism -- Fiction.
- Jewish women -- Fiction.
- Journalists -- Fiction.
- Vienna (Austria) -- Fiction.