As One Must, One Can

By Rochelle Wisoff-Fields

Havah Gitterman, her husband Arel, their children, and surviving family and friends have settled into their lives in America, the turmoil and persecution of Eastern Europe behind them. Or is it? Although physically safe in their adopted country, the ghosts of the dead and the horrors of the past still haunt them.
While everything is up to date in 1908 Kansas City, bigotry and religious discrimination abound. Havah faces each challenge, emotional or physical, with courage, determination and her father’s voice ever reminding her, “As one must, one can.”

• Language: English
• Publisher: W & B Publishers
• Release date: Dec 3, 2016
• ISBN: 9781370216505

Rochelle Wisoff-Fields

Rochelle Wisoff-Fields is an author and illustrator. A woman of Jewish descent and the granddaughter of Eastern European immigrants, she has a personal connection to Jewish history, a recurring theme throughout much of her writing. Heavily influenced by the Sholem Aleichem stories, as well as Fiddler on the Roof,her novels Please Say Kaddish for Me, From Silt and Ashes, and As One Must One Can were born of her desire to share the darker side of these beloved tales. A Kansas City native, Wisoff-Fields attended the Kansas City Art Institute, where she studied painting and lithography. She maintains her blog, Addicted to Purple, and is the author of This, That and Sometimes the Other, an anthology of her short stories, which she also illustrated. Her stories have also been featured in several other anthologies, including two editions of Voices. Wisoff-Fields and her husband, Jan, have three sons and now live in Belton, Missouri.

Reviews for As One Must, One Can

[Jeanie Pantelakis · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Rochelle Wisoff-Fields has outdone herself once again. For those of us who have fallen in love with sweet Havah and her whole family, she opened the voyeuristic door to experience their lives as if we are in the very same room with them—scents, sights, sounds, the essence of her warm and loving home, the pain she endures with her leg, as well as the persecution of being Jewish, the love of a child and redemption of one gone astray. In As One Must, One Can, Rochelle proves to us just that. We all have what it takes if we only reach deep enough and have faith and forgiveness. I am not able to praise her enough for the first two, Please Say Kaddish For Me and From Silt and Ashes, and yet she brings one more into the fray that leaves me breathless.
— CJ Loiacono