The protagonist of The Ballad of East and West, The Secret of Redemption, and A Human Rights Odyssey is Rabbi Isaac Levin.  Isaac is based on the three biblical patriarchs, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.  Abraham and Jacob were portrayed as movers and shakers.  Isaac was the weak link.  Rabbi Isaac Levin, despite his involvement in human rights, saw himself not as a mover and shaker, but as a link in the chain of prophetic tradition. Levin is based on the co-protagonist of Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina.  Both Konstantin Levin and Isaac Levin were socially awkward, introspective individuals who contemplated the overall meaning of life.  Konstantin Levin bemoaned the superficiality of the aristocratic class in Imperial Russia, while Isaac Levin bemoaned the racism and injustice in the twentieth and twenty first centuries.  Konstantin Levin ultimately found resolution by retreating from politics, and by residing in the country, farming, and focusing on both the welfare of his family and the peasants who worked his fields.  Rabbi Isaac Levin found resolution by participating in society and becoming involved in various causes.