This vol­ume con­tains Faith & Courage, a novel­la, as well as two short sto­ries, ​“Del Monte” and ​“The Pock­etknife.” Faith & Courage presents the sto­ry of Rab­bi Shab­bathai Cohen, known as the Shach, and his daugh­ter Esther. Their sto­ry bears strik­ing sim­i­lar­i­ty to the Bib­li­cal Book of Esther, and it’s a com­pelling tale which will draw the read­er into the amaz­ing events of their lives. Their faith and piety in the face of almost unimag­in­able dif­fi­cul­ties are inspi­ra­tions to read­ers young and not-so-young. The two short sto­ries also mod­el reli­gious faith and the impor­tance of behav­ing prop­er­ly toward oth­er peo­ple. The lan­guage feels old, but in a charm­ing way that does not detract from the sto­ries; in fact, it adds a fairy tale qual­i­ty to the writ­ing. Read­ers who are already famil­iar with Jew­ish texts and basic pre­cepts of Judaism will under­stand this work more read­i­ly, though Lehmann pro­vides enough expla­na­tion for a deter­mined novice to fig­ure out what’s going on. High­ly rec­om­mend­ed for libraries serv­ing Ortho­dox patrons and those inter­est­ed in Jew­ish his­to­ry. Grades 8 – 12.