Marcel Singer - The Gentle Butcher of Hongkew

About the Book

About the Author

Having begun his writing career at an age when most men are satisfied to kick back and relax, Sidney B. Kurtz has written three books with roots in World War II. The first tells of a family’s adventures after leaving Latvia for the U.S. in 1912. The second and third books concern families that managed to escape from German-occupied Europe before and during the war. Mr. Kurtz grew up in the congested and mostly immigrant-inhabited neighborhood of North Philadelphia, where the streets were the playgrounds, and where horse-drawn wagons shared space with sidewalk vendors hawking freshly made horse radish.