The Pincus Legacy

About the Book

This is a love story of two young people, Pincus and Yetta, caught In the undercurrents of life and the quirks of fate. Pincus is the son of German-Jewish immigrants and Yetta is the daughter of Russian-Jewish immigrants. There has always been conflict between the two Since the German Jews thought the Russian Jews inferior to them. The theme of "The Pincus Legacy" is father versus son, brother against brother and, finally, culture versus culture. Although the pattern of the story comes from real life, the cloth that clothes the book is fiction and the thread taht weaves everything together is fate.

About the Author

Sidney L. Dornfest was born December 21, 1919, in a tenement on the lower East Side of New York City. He survived the Great Depression. Served in the United States Army During World War II. After the war, worked in the United States Postal Service and attended Brooklyn College at night. A slipped disc in his back ended his college career. Thirty years later he retired from the Postal Service and then attended Cerritos College where he received an AA degree in the Humanities. His final goal was to attend a university and obtain a degree in English but poor health prevented him from achieving that goal. The author was married for 52 years and had one son. Sidney L. Dornfest died June 23, 1997.