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Hands of Gold: A Man’s Quest to Find the Silver Lining
Seasoned writer Roni Robbins’ award-winning novel, “Hands of Gold: One Man’s Quest to find the Silver Lining in Misfortune,” offers a poignant must-read story. By ROBYN SPIZMAN GERSON October 13, 2022, 10:52 am Seasoned writer Roni Robbins’ award-winning novel, “Hands of Gold: One Man’s Quest to find the Silver Lining in Misfortune,” offers a poignant must-read story. Robbins, a longtime… Read More »Hands of Gold: A Man’s Quest to Find the Silver Lining
Presenting this Year’s Book Festival Preview
Atlanta Jewish Times joins Greenberg Traurig as “presenting sponsors” of this year’s book festival. By KAYLENE LADINSKY October 13, 2022, 10:53 am The 31st edition of the Book Festival of the MJCCA started on Oct. 12 with Jodi Picoult & Jennifer Finney Boylan, “Mad Honey: A Novel” as the first in-person event to kick off the festival, followed by Benjamin… Read More »Presenting this Year’s Book Festival Preview
Hands of Gold: One Man’s Quest to Find the Silver Lining in Misfortune
Roni Robbins Hands of Gold is a heartwarming story about Sam Fox that began with cassette tapes he left his family. Sam came from nothing. A poor Jewish farm hand From Hungary, he spent most of his adult life running from the military, changing identities, skipping borders, harboring secrets, and fighting a devastating illness. Along the way he accidentally killed a man in a trolley accident,… Read More »Hands of Gold: One Man’s Quest to Find the Silver Lining in Misfortune
Book Review – Stephanie Gomez
5/5 Where do I begin? First of, I’m not a big reader, but this novel proves otherwise. Typically, if I pick up a book it takes me months to finish it. With Hands of Gold it took me a month exactly. The astonishing life of Shimshon, otherwise known as Sam in America and Montreal. His story begins in the… Read More »Book Review – Stephanie Gomez
Tale of the heroic everyman
“Hands of Gold: One Man’s Quest to Find the Silver Lining in Misfortune” by Roni Robbins. Oegstgeest, Netherlands: Amsterdam Publishers, 2022. 230 pages. $19.95. Sam Fox was heroic in his ordinariness. The protagonist in this novel — like the toy punching bags that always pop back up after being pushed down — was super resilient. No matter the challenge, he… Read More »Tale of the heroic everyman
Lynda’s Book Reviews
5/5 This is an historical novel drawing on the life of the author’s grandfather. True events are interwoven into the lifetime of a fictional Jewish man, Sam Fox. So well written and heartfelt this is an inspiring story about a brave and resourceful man. Briefly, born in Hungary but having emigrated to America Sam, in his fading years, is… Read More »Lynda’s Book Reviews
Meet the author: Q&A with local author on family inspired fictional tale ‘Hands of Gold’
Roni Robbins has been a professional writer for 35 years, but her first novel “Hands of Gold,” draws from her family’s real-life experience and flight from anti-Semitism before the height of the Holocaust. “Hands of Gold” is a work of fiction, but Robbins pulls from the original cassette tapes left by her maternal grandfather, who survived tuberculosis, a workplace shooting… Read More »Meet the author: Q&A with local author on family inspired fictional tale ‘Hands of Gold’
Mother’s Day 2022 Gift Guide
Here are some thoughtful ideas for adding your signature style to any Mother’s Day gift Previous Next Mother’s Day is on the way, and we know that finding the right gift for the moms in your life can be challenging. Consider her favorite things: what does she enjoy, collect or love the most — besides you, of course? Below are… Read More »Mother’s Day 2022 Gift Guide
Book Review – Dan Farkas
5/5 That the subject of Hands of Gold by Roni Robbins was reluctant to put the story on to the cassette tapes supplied by his loving daughter is a measure of the man’s humility. It took two generations for his granddaughter, the author, to put the man’s words down on the written page. That man would be proud of Hands… Read More »Book Review – Dan Farkas
