This volume follows the hapless, albeit hilarious, adventures of Menachem-Mendl, a dreamy optimist who travels to New York and across Eastern Europe in search of an elusive fortune at the approach of World War I. His wife and children are left behind in the shtetl of Kasrilevka.
- ISBN13 9780815606772
- Publish Date 30 March 2001
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Syracuse University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 186
- Language English