The Rabbi in the Attic
Eileen Pollack
1991
[…] What rabbi would come to this impoverished nowhere for the pishochs we offered, especially if he had to rent his own lodgings—the congregation had no money for an apartment when a perfectly good house (with expensive upkeep) adjoined it already.
“Gentlemen,” said Zlotkin, who had been meditating in just this manner, “the answer has come to me…
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