Chaim Linder was born in Jerusalem in 1907, one of seven children in an ultra-orthodox Jewish family that lived just outside Jerusalem’s walls in Batei Warsaw, a community that housed Polish immigrants. As a child, he lived through the deprivations and chaos of World War I when the British, in their quest for empire, fought the Turks and their German allies. At the end of the war, Palestine, and Jerusalem, became a mandate of Britain, and Chaim and his family experienced once more the hard, brutal hand of another imperial power. After the Arab riots of 1929, in which two of Chaim’s cousins were slaughtered in Hebron, he left Jerusalem for America. There, expecting to find gold at his feet, he encountered the harsh realities of the Great Depression. He taught himself English, became a tri-lingual linotypist. In New York, he met an émigré from Jerusalem. They married and moved to Brooklyn, where they raised a family of four sons. Chaim retired in 1972 and began working on his memoir. Now, twenty years after his death, one of his sons, a professional writer, has edited the manuscript, and the story of Chaim Linder, and his ancestors, comes to life in ANGELS ALWAYS COME ON TIME.