Eva

About the Book

Eva Rothschild was born into the upscale Berlin world of the 1920s, an artistic, Cabaret society that lived on the edge between the two World Wars. Her secure world crumbled to pieces with the arrival of Hitler’s storm troopers, forcing her parents to flee with their two daughters from Germany to Montevideo, Uruguay. Energetic and alive, she yearned for freedom to express herself in her own fashion, through dance and learning, until she finally took the daunting step of moving to New York City. In her third country, with her third language, she found the life she sought, with Boris Kastel, who was also on a personal life quest. Eva’s story covers nearly a century. And it is by no means finished.

About the Author

In Boris, Jack Dold related the incredible adventures of Boris Kastel, whose life spanned the traumatic events from World War I through Partisan fighting in World War II in Northern Italy and Yugoslavia. Eva brings Boris’ story to a completion, but also chronicles the equally dramatic life of a young Jewish woman who lived in three worlds from prewar Germany to Uruguay and finally the United States. The stories of Boris and Eva Kastel, both of whom were teaching colleagues with Dold at Bishop O’Dowd High School in Oakland, California, are drawn from ongoing conversations over their many years of friendship. This is Dold’s fifth book with AuthorHouse.