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The Heretic
The Pope's Conspiracy
A Good Conviction

* A personal view of the exhibit “Fascination and Terror” at the Nazi Documentation Center in Nuremberg … a documentary glorification of the rise of Adolf Hitler … from the “heroic” march in Munich 1923 to “Our Fuhrer would never allow [the gassing of inn

****** My wife and I visited the Nazi Documentation Center in Nuremberg on June 28, 2012, as part of a research trip related to a novel I am currently working on, a novel that will focus on the reasons why German citizens came to support Hitler and the Nazi programs of unprovoked war and the [...]

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****** THE HERETIC was my first novel, published in 2000. It tells the story of the secretly Jewish Catalan family, desperately struggling to avoid the snare of the Spanish Inquisition while starting one of the very first printing presses to try to save the Jewish literature of a very productive period in Spain. The Heretic has [...]

a new review of The Heretic

A new review of my first novel The Heretic was just posted on Goodreads by Fergie … The Heretic is a wonderfully written novel about the Spanish Inquisition and the impact it had on the Jewish population in the 15th century. In Lewis Weinstein’s able hands, the history of Jewish culture trying to survive the Anti-Semitic acts of that era survive. In fact, Weinstein describes with great deft, the roots of Anti-Semitic views in Europe.

I read this book in one day, finding it difficult to put down. History, action, and love all abound in this book.

see the entire review plus more at ...
http://lewweinsteinauthorblog.com/201...

* an enthusiastic new review of “The Heretic” on Goodreads … “History, action, and love all abound in this book.”

****** ****** Elie Wiesel: The Heretic is deeply absorbing … it helps Jews and Christians better understand their complex and often painful relationship. Alan M. Dershowitz: The historical novel that is both true to the past and relevant to the present is rare indeed. The Heretic humanizes the tragic history of religious persecution. Faye Kellerman: The Heretic is a sweeping historical tale [...]

* a new review of The Heretic … “Once you read the foreword, you’ll be compellingly hooked.”

****** ****** NOTE: The Foreword and the Prologue are shown below ****** A new review of The Heretic was just posted on Goodreads by Fergie … The Heretic is a wonderfully written novel about the Spanish Inquisition and the impact it had on the Jewish population in the 15th century. In Lewis Weinstein’s able hands, [...]

* the Jeffrey MacDonald case and Lew's novel "A Good Conviction"

A new book by Errol Morris (A Wilderness of Error: The Trials of Jeffrey MacDonald) re-opens the Jeffrey MacDonald case.

I have long believed that MacDonald was wrongly convicted by prosecutors who may have had an agenda to protect the “military brats” who were the likely killers. Evidence was ignored and some was lost, perhaps purposely.



The MacDonald case was part of what stimulated me to write my novel, A Good Conviction, which tells the story of a young man convicted of a murder he did not commit by a prosecutor who had come to know he was innocent.

For my complete post, see ... http://lewweinsteinauthorblog.com/201...

* the Jeffrey MacDonald case and Lew’s novel “A Good Conviction”

****** A new book by Errol Morris re-opens the Jeffrey MacDonald case … A Wilderness of Error: The Trials of Jeffrey MacDonald DID Jeffrey MacDonald, an Army doctor and Green Beret stationed at Fort Bragg, stab and bludgeon his family to death early on the morning of Feb. 17, 1970? ****** LMW NOTE … I have [...]

Lew's ongoing review of "Backing Hitler" by Robert Gellately

It is getting harder for me to reconcile the horrors of the totalitarian state graphically described by Gellately with his contention that “a huge majority of Germans supported Hitler’s policies and thought Hitler was good for Germany.” For one thing, as the net of repressive and arbitrary police procedures grew ever tighter, how is it possible to know if the German people continued to support Hitler or were terrified not to support him?

I’ll keep reading and looking for evidence that has not yet been provided … all the while trying to figure out how I will present these questions and choices in my new novel.

read the entire review here on GR or at my author blog at ... http://lewweinsteinauthorblog.com/201...

* Lew’s review (ongoing) of “Backing Hitler” by Robert Gellately … It is getting harder for me to reconcile the horrors of the totalitarian state graphically described by Gellately with his contention that “a huge majority of Germans supported Hitler’s pol

In his introduction, Gellately sets the premise that Hitler was well received in 1933 by most Germans who applauded his goals of “restoring the grandeur of the Reich” and “cleaning out undesirable aliens.” He argues that this widespread support for Hitler did not waver substantially until more than a decade later when it was obvious [...]