.. people who come up from the bottom develop a sheer momentum, which no one lacking that momentum can beat .. "why would your readers care to share one threadbare elderly Jew?" .. a girl, long dead, links the two men .. go back in time with the use of imaginative but practical staging .. singing the holocaust .. the first song titled HAZARD'S CHILDREN begins this seemingly impossible task .. why a devout Zionist scholar should live such a life of contradiction .. mutilating forces from the past must surface to render a harsh and long overdue justice .. early days of the Third Reich .. sacrifice honor and decency to pursue a lust for destiny .. her fate is sealed, when our protagonist chooses to follow the pack .. songs are woven in and around this fast moving drama .. a dark obsession lies in this old man's refusal .. soulds like FUNERAL IN BERLING .. a descent into grief and death and loss .. redemption ..