TY - SER KW - Roman Catholics KW - Pittsburgh Police KW - Italian Americans KW - detectives KW - Polish Americans KW - rabbis KW - sex workers KW - illegal drug trade KW - pimps KW - priests KW - Black Americans KW - Jewish Americans AU - David Scott Milton AB - Follows three young toughs from Greenfield and Squirrel Hill. When one of them kills an old man, another, Akiba Moldavan, now a rabbi, tries to save his childhood friend from eternal damnation via Kabbalah, the mystical Jewish tract. C1 - 1970s C3 - Allegheny County; Allegheny River; Monongahela River; Ohio River; Pittsburgh; Downtown; Squirrel Hill; Taylor Allderdice High School; Colfax Elementary School; St. Philomena’s Church; Jewish Home for the Aged; Frick Park; Greenfield; Polish Hill; Hazelwoo C4 - Psychological; Thriller CY - New York LA - English M3 - Novel N2 - Follows three young toughs from Greenfield and Squirrel Hill. When one of them kills an old man, another, Akiba Moldavan, now a rabbi, tries to save his childhood friend from eternal damnation via Kabbalah, the mystical Jewish tract. PB - Harcourt Brace Jovanovich PP - New York PY - 1980 RN - David Scott Milton (1934-2020), born to a working-class Jewish family in Pittsburgh, was a novelist, playwright, screenwriter, and actor. He lived in California. EP - 336 p. TI - Kabbalah ER -