High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Second Scroll is a 1951 novel by the Jewish-Canadian writer A. M. Klein. Klein`s only novel was written after his pilgrimage to the newly-founded nation of Israel in 1949. It concerns the quest for meaning in the post-Holocaust world, as an unnamed narrator, a Montreal journalist and editor, searches for his long-lost uncle, Melech Davidson, a Holocaust survivor, in post-war Italy, Morocco, and Israel.