Shabos-Nakhamu

Isaac Babel

1918

This is how things go with your average Jew. But Hershele is not your average Jew. It wasn’t by chance that he was famous in all of Ostropol, in all of Berdichev, and in all of Vilyuisk.

Hershele celebrated only one Friday evening in six. On other Fridays he sat in the cold darkness with his family. His children cried. His wife hurled reproaches at…

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