Aldo might have been the worst of them. But they were all bad. Sort of. Well, let’s say wild, instead. Yet all six of them came from loving Italian immigrant households in the Belmont section of the Bronx . . . . . . and underneath their veneer of bravado they were good hearted boys. …

The story of the Kosher deli is the story of the Jewish experience in the United States. It is easy, with some background information, to see the direct parallels between the history and development of the American Jew and that of the Kosher deli. And no place is a better indicator of this phenomenon than …