Meshugah

"Meshugah, a newly discovered novel ... which the author published serially in 1981-83 ... is the story of Holocaust survivors in New York in the early 1950s, and its narrator is Aaron Greidinger, forty-seven, a writer for the Forward who is just beginning to receive recognition for his stories and his Sunday radio talks. He finds himself inextricably involved with a group of refugees on the Upper West Side after Max Aberdam of Warsaw, a 'ghost' whom he had long thought dead, walks into his newspaper office"--Publisher marketing.