“I was a textbook writer for years, but editors would never let me put in the good stuff,” he said. “I started to read the stories, which was so clever and funny, and that’s what really got me interested.” “I only went to Hebrew school because it was important to my father, but he could see how bored I was, so he gave me the book, ‘101 Jewish Folk Tales,’ which was so much more exciting,” said Sheinkin, who is also the author of a series of completely factual history textbooks that nonetheless make the topic fun for teenagers. “Such incredibly quick thinking.”Įven faster thinking keeps Harvey one step ahead of the bad guys, including Big Milt Wasserman and his son, Wolfie, who frame Harvey in a robbery plot and kidnap his love interest, the schoolteacher, Abby.īut it doesn’t spoil the ending to report that Harvey triumphs in the end, thanks to a enough ancient Jewish wisdom to fill the very Hebrew school classrooms that Sheinkin hated as a kid. “You shoulda seen this fella, Mort,” one man says to another.
Instead of expressing surprise at the sudden doubling of the rabbinical population of Elk Spring, the two men are awed. “Year after year, the most popular event at the Elk Spring Fair was the ‘Stump the Rabbi’ booth,” Sheinkin wrote, absurdly, in the opening of one story from his first collection.Īnd in another memorable sequence in the new book, a second rabbi comes to town.
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