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...