Sequels of great books, like great films, usually don't make it. They promise much but let you down. Zvi and the Next Generation is a wondrous exception.
In 1978, The Friends of Israel published the first edition of Zvi. In the forward, Marv Rosenthal wrote: Zvi is a name difficult to pronounce. If you read this book, it will be a name you will never forget. Zvi will take you from pre-Second World War Poland and the Warsaw Ghetto, to the streets of Jerusalem and the frontlines of the Israeli Army. Zvi will entertain you, but much more than that, its towering dimensions will forever touch your life. His profound courage will embolden, and his irrepressible faith inspire. Zvi for all its wonder is a wholly true story...Zvi spans the distance between the depth of human depravity and the height of divine sovereignty. Zvi pulls back the curtain and permits a dimensional look at the Master Potter fashioning from a least likely piece of clay a "vessel unto honour" and "fit for the Master's use"
Hundreds of thousands of readers have in the ten years which have intervened, testified to those truths. Now Zvi and the Next Generation picks up where the first volume left off. It speaks of the 20th-century miracle land of Israel and the sons and daughter of Zvi, a miracle man in that land. Both man and land proclaim the glory of God.
