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Conceived in a storytelling workshop given by Spalding Gray, Old Man In a Baseball Cap is not your typical story of World War II. Rochlin recounts in gritty detail how he--an ordinary young man--was thrust into outrageous circumstances during an extraordinary time. Whether he's bumping up against the army's bigotry because he's Jewish, aiding in the delivery of a baby by cesarean section, being ordered to obliterate a Hungarian village, or parachuting from his plane in the middle of Yugoslavia and then walking 400 kilometers to safety with an amorous guide, Rochlin captures the...

The definitive chronicle of the lives, experiences, and contributions of the Jewish men and women who helped shape the American frontier.

What reviewers have said about Pioneer Jews:

"From their storehouse of information ... the Rochlins have produced an 'illustrated social history' packed with information and anecdotes likely to surprise most readers." --"New York Times Book Review"

"American Jewish history in a fresh, Far Western light--unpreoccupied by traditional themes ... and closer in outlook to other expressions of ethnic frontier pride: the surprise is that it's a...