Award–winning author returns with a sweeping historical novel

An elderly lion dies at the Bronx Zoo in 1957. Inside its body: a silver SS ring.

This is the opening to “The Girl Who Rode the White Lion,” the forthcoming novel by National Jewish Book Award–winning author Yishay Ishi Ron. The story spans Nazi Germany and postwar New York, uncovering long-buried secrets through a striking and highly original narrative.

In this new release, Ron delivers a sweeping story of courage, survival, and unlikely sanctuary set against the dark backdrop of Nazi-era Europe.

Germany, 1938: As Nazi persecution intensifies, a young Jewish girl named Sarah Frank narrowly es...