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How can she know what it means to be a good Jewish wife and mother?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mina Rose: \u201cI must leave my father\u2019s house, but I have nowhere else to go!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the popular novel The Captives, readers met \u2013 and learned to love \u2014 Toiby and Naftali, two Jews abducted as children and raised as Cherokee, and Berel Weinberg, who miraculously rescues them from captivity.<\/p>\n<p>But the story is far from over \u2026<\/p>\n<p>How can a Cherokee brave wrap tefillin on an arm that knew how to wield a deadly tomahawk and a forehead formerly decorated with warpaint? Can a girl versed in the ways of native American women transform into an eishes chayil? Will the Jewish community they are seeking to join even accept them? And what about the little girl fleeing an orphanage, embarking on a dangerous journey with only an imaginary friend as her guide?<\/p>\n<p>Set in a small Jewish pioneering community in an increasingly tense pre-Civil-War border state, Return From Captivity is popular author Rochel Istrin\u2019s can\u2019t-put-it-down novel of adventure, discovery, and the infinite power of the Jewish neshamah to return to its people.\n<\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Naftali: \u201dWho am I \u2013 a Cherokee warrior, or a Jew?\u201d Chanale: \u201cWhere are my brothers and sister? Why don\u2019t they come for me?\u201d Berel: \u201cShould I keep my promise and marry Toiby? 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