A retelling of Dicken's Christmas Carol in which Scrooge runs a sweat shop, his forward-thinking, union sympathetic nephew loves the daughter of the equivalent of Bob Cratchet, and Rabbis of Hanukkah Past, Present and Future (a woman) visit him to make him change his ways. Lots of Yiddish words thrown in. The story of the Maccabees is inaccurate. The most interesting part of the book are the notes after the story. ( )

An adaptation of Dickens' Christmas Carol with protagonist old Scroogemacher visited by three ghostly rabbis who take him back in time to the Maccabbees, to present day tenements (early 20th century) and then on to the future. Will he get the message? ( )