The poems include touchingly romantic and sad expressions of Steffi s youthful idealism and more recent humorous epistles. My first Year in Eretz Israel picks up the story where her previous book Jewish Girl in the Weimar Republic ends with Steffi s arrival in 1934 at what was then Palestine. It is a lively description of the Jewish agricultural settlers who came to Palestine in the early 1930 s. The Sekilaridis House describes Steffi s marriage to a Roman Catholic Armenian and their adventures in the multicultural society of Jerusalem in the British Mandate of Palestine during World War II. The Teeth of Polycrates is a satirical story about good luck that takes place on the ship traveling from Brazil to the USA. How I became a Teacher describes Steffi s life in Zion Illinois and her enthusiastic achievement of becoming a school teacher. The Ones that Got Away describes Steffi s project of collecting biographies of survivors of the Nazi Holocaust - showing how they overcame suffering found satisfying new roots and became successful contributors in countries to which they emigrated.