Kalisz is a fic­tion­al account set in Kalisz, Poland, trav­el­ling between worlds of time and place through the rich Jew­ish cul­ture’s rit­u­als and tra­di­tions. This nov­el depicts a Jew­ish fam­i­ly’s ordeals through two world wars, and their sep­a­ra­tion as the Holo­caust evolves. It is with­out inten­tion that Rose, the daugh­ter of the sto­ry’s pro­tag­o­nist, returns to her father’s ances­tral home to find that it is not the same Kalisz her father knew. The large Jew­ish pop­u­la­tion has been emp­tied and left silent by the Holo­caust, but an extra­or­di­nary con­nec­tion is made between two fam­i­lies, and the hid­den past of Rose’s ances­try is revealed.