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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Eileen Pollack

b. 1956

Eileen Pollack grew up in Liberty, New York. After studying physics at Yale University, she became a novelist and prose writer. She has served as the Zell Director of the MFA Program in Creative Writing at the University of Michigan. She is the recipient of two Pushcart Prizes, the Cohen Award, and the Edwin Lewis Wallant Prize.

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