A modern-day parable written in Yiddish-inflected English uses the story of two crooks who set out to rob the St. Louis saloon of Reb Elias Olschwanger as a metaphor for the first Passover.
Two crooks, following the inspiration of Pharaoh's ghost, fail to steal a precious shipment of kosher wine from Israel and lose their horse and wagon in the process. Based on an incident in the lives
