"Another Ruth" Release February 2018

Another Ruth

ANOTHER RUTH begins in 1920 Berlin when an unlikely young couple meets and falls in love. It takes the reader through the tumultuous and dangerous changes of 1930s Germany and ends in the very different Berlin of 1948. The novel depicts the flourishing love of two young people against the backdrop of the deepening shadows of anti-Semitism that was to erupt in the conflagration of the Shoah (Holocaust). Twelve years of Nazi domination failed to destroy the constancy of their steadily growing bond. Their fictional names are Klara and Lev, but the couple is based upon the author's real parents, Fritz and Frieda Kuhn. Their social, cultural, and religious backgrounds could not have made for a more unlikely match.

Frieda Krüger's parents were raised as Lutherans, and were working-class people, whereas Fritz Kuhn came from a long line of upper-middle-class German Jews who were affluent bankers.

Before their marriage in 1926, Frieda chose to convert to Judaism, free of coercion, compelled by conviction. The title of Dr. Kuhn's novel is in honor of the Jewish ancestress Ruth; Frieda followed Ruth's sublime words at every step, unflinching in her devotion and fortitude to her Jewish family during the deadliest of times. “Where you go I will go, where you lodge, I will lodge; your God shall be my God; … where you die, I will die.”

Published by Cactus Moon Publications LLC

www.cactusmoonpublishing.com (Release February 2018)