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The Family Koenig is a historical novel about several generations of physicians in a Jewish family during the core years of the 20th century. It is a gripping book that is rich with historical detail that contains love stories, abandonment, wars, murders and suicides; and yet is a meditation on how its physicians find inner strength, become true healers, and find and nurture love.

The Plague Doctor is a historical novel that follows the travels of a Jewish physician and his lawyer brother during the Black Death of 1347. They have lost their wives and children to plague, and devastated, they leave Florence to restart their lives. As the brothers traverse medieval Europe, they meld their medical and legal skills to resolve dilemmas engendered by a rapidly changing world. Along the way the meet two sisters—a midwife and a banker—whom they hope to marry and join them in moving to Poland (whose king is welcoming Jewish immigrants).