00713nam a22000977a 4500020001800000100001800018245001900036260003500055490002100090650050400111  a97815566106601 aThoene, Bodie00aVienna Prelude  bBethany House Publishersc19890 aZion Covenant #1 4aPredating the events of The Zion Chronicles Series, Vienna Prelude opens in pre-World War II Austria. Elisa Lindheim, a violinist with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, is of Jewish heritage but has adopted an Aryan stage name. Thus she is able to travel and play in Germany even though a 1935 law forbade Jewish musicians to do so. Her dear friend Leah, a cellist already introduced to Thoene readers in A Daughter of Zion, and her husband Shimon must escape Austria or perish in the coming Holocaust.