The Fur Traders

Strasbourg Saga #3

by Avner Gold

Click here to view a full-size image The Fur Traders By Avner Gold (Author) List $19.99 Online 10% You Pay $17.99 Catalog #: AGFTH 1422608816 9781422608814 Hardcover 6 x 9 inches / 1.25 LBS by ArtScroll / Mesorah In Stock?: YES Related Items List Price Online Price In Stock? Scandal in Amsterdam $19.99 $17.99 YES The Long Road to Freedom $19.99 $17.99 YES On the day before Chanukah in the year 1684, a shocking event takes place in the beis midrash of the leading yeshivah of Amsterdam. The event leads to private accusations and confrontations and a public uproar that threatens to change the course of many lives. The complications that arise send the central characters on a hair-raising journey across the Atlantic Ocean and into the wilds of Indian country in upstate New York. In The Fur Traders, Avner Gold tells the explosive story of three friends, brought together by crisis and cont

Genres: Jewish, Childrens

215 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2008

About the author

Yaakov Yosef Reinman is an American Orthodox rabbi and writer, historian, and scholar. His monographs and articles have appeared in many Jewish periodicals and his study of Talmudic contractual law is a text used in yeshivas throughout the world. His Ruach Ami series is written under the pen name Avner Gold.

Reinman is the author of sefer Shufra Dishtara, an analytical study of the philosophy of Talmudic contractual law, which is utilized as a text in yeshiva studies. He also co-authored the book One People, Two Worlds: A Reform Rabbi and an Orthodox Rabbi Explore the Issues That Divide Them with Reform Rabbi Ammiel Hirsch. A fluent speaker of several languages, Reinman has also become known as a translator for ancient Jewish texts into English.

He is a descendant of the Narol, and his first wife, Shami (Shlomtzie) née Rubin was a descendant of the Nadvorna Chasidic dynasties.

Reinman lives in Lakewood Township, New Jersey.