A spectacular, lavishly comic send-up of the solemn Jewish family saga set in Brooklyn in the 1930s and '40s. Tells the story of Simon Sloan, from his days of matzo and milk to his marching off to war.
Wallace Markfield (1926-2002) was one of the most important Jewish-American writers of the twentieth century. His novel To an Early Grave was adapted into the film Bye, Bye Braverman, directed by Sidney Lumet, and he was also the author of Teitlebaum's Window, You Could Live If They Let You, and Radical Surgery.