A Cobbler’s Tale is an adventure story about Pincus Potasznik, a second-generation Jewish cobbler, born in a small shtetl in the province of Galicia, part of the former Austro-Hungarian Empire. In 1910, at the historic height of the massive Eastern European immigration wave to the New World, Pincus decides to leave behind his pregnant wife, and three small children, in order to seek a new life for his family in the burgeoning Lower East Side of Manhattan. On his traumatic voyage across the Atlantic Ocean on the SS Amerika steamship, Pincus meets Jakob Adler, a young man running from an accidental murder of a notorious crime boss in Warsaw. The story also explores the challenges of pregnant Clara Potasznik as she does her best to protect her family, while the bloodiest battles of World War I explode within miles of her family home, a small village called Krzywcza. Moshe, the young son of Pincus and Clara Potasznik, discovers his divine ability to foretell dire events, and to offer real comfort those in pain, taking the reader into the wisdom and mystery surrounding the ancient Jewish mysticism, known as Kabbalah. A Cobbler’s Tale is a story of a family’s survival against tremendous odds.

Historical Fiction,

Pincus, the cobbler, leaves his pregnant wife Clara and three children to establish a new life in Lower East Side. He meets an array of colorful characters while trying to establish his life in the new world. In the meantime, his family try to survive the battles of World War 1 in their front yard.

Galicia, Lower East Side

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Voyage and Return

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Name: Pincus Potasznik

Age: 34

Gender: Male

Role: Protagonist

Key Traits: Insecure, Lone Wolf, Underdog, Clumsy, Faithful, Greedy, Heroic, Honorable

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Age: 35-54

Target Gender: Universal

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Status: Yes: self-published

Year Published: 2018

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