What happens when a 19th Century rabbi, who has been preserved in ice,suddenly is defrosted and finds himselfin the 21st Century? In this madcap,extremely entertainingnovel,we not only find out the answer to that question,butwe also gain an insight into life in a Jewish "shtetl" in the 19th Cen...
With his novel, Steve Stern takes us on a journey through the history of Jewish diaspora. In the 19th century, a Hasidic rabbi is (literally) turning into a block of ice during his meditating in a pond nearby a progrom-ridden shtetl in Poland, found later and being passed down in the Karp family ...
At fifteen, Harry Kaplan has had his only excitement in books. But when his family moves from Brooklyn to a Memphis ghetto called Pinch, Harry finds opportunity for adventure to rival Huck Finn's. Author Steve Stern takes readers on a most original and entertaining adventure.
I asked Avrom at my next opportunity. Of course there were nothing but opportunities in Avrom’s shop, since hardly anyone came in to browse. Downtown Memphis had entered its slow economic decline. Main Street’s perennial holdouts, the department stores and old movie palaces—baroque facades like l...