A Book of Great Worth

✍ Scribed by Margoshes, Dave

• Book ID: 109155573
• Publisher: Coteau Books
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 227 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781550504767

✦ Synopsis

Set largely among the Jewish community of inter-war New York City, this is a beautifully-told collection of scenes from Morgenstern�s life. The tricky ground of writing the advice column for a provincial Yiddish daily; successes during, and hard times after, the Depression; a position at the top of his craft as a labour specialist in the New York City Yiddish press � these and many more form a portrait of �a fundamentally decent man in morally perplexing situations�. �I�ve been working on a series of stories about the character I call �my father� � loosely based on my own father � for about 30 years�I wondered if I could use the character in other situations. [One] story had begun with a spark of truth � a story my father had told many times about a foolish man he�d once known � and the spirit of my father.�All the stories in the series walk that precarious tightrope between memoir and fiction��I worked hard, with the stories� structure and a sort of old-fashioned expository...