Who is today’s Amer­i­can Jew? Joseph Roten­berg styles him­self as a mod­ern-day mag­gid (tra­di­tion­al Jew­ish sto­ry­teller), weav­ing tales from the every­day to the fan­tas­tic, each one bring­ing the read­er a slice of the Amer­i­can Jew­ish expe­ri­ence. Just as Sholem Ale­ichem did more than a hun­dred years ago in his famous sto­ries describ­ing Russ­ian Jew­ish life, these tales inform and enter­tain by uncov­er­ing lit­tle-known events and per­son­al­i­ties that have impact­ed the Amer­i­can Jew­ish world…you’ll laugh, cry, and won­der as you trav­el through Joseph Roten­berg’s inci­sive and at times laugh-out-loud fun­ny col­lec­tion of tales.