cover image Justice Hunger

Justice Hunger

Meyer Liben. Schocken Books Inc, $8.95 (259pp) ISBN 978-0-8052-0804-7

First published 20 years ago, this short novel and nine stories are set in New York in the 1930s. Solotaroff calls Liben (19111975) ""a kind of Scholem Aleichem of the middle-class urban Jew.'' PW stated that this ``small classic captures an era with accuracy and verve.'' (May)