The Jump Artist

Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature

“A remarkable work . . . [that] documents a triumph of the human spirit over tremendous adversity.”—Harper’s

“This elegantly-written tribute makes as beautiful a use of the darkness and light of one man’s life as a Halsman photograph of a pretty young woman.”—GQ

"Ratner weaves a psychologically arresting fiction from these facts, imagining the creep of Nazism in 1928 Europe."—Cleveland Plain Dealer