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Updated: May 7, 2025
Why, the Ghetto could not even realize such indifference to the heavenly tribunals so busily decreeing their life-or-death sentences! Barstein raised his glass. 'Here's a happy new year, anyhow! he said. The three men clinked glasses. Rozenoffski drew out a hundred-lire note. 'Send that to the poor devil, he said. 'Oho! laughed Schneemann. 'You still believe "Charity delivers from death!"
'Amen! said Yossel, still propped assertively on his crutches. The grandson turned upon the interrupter. 'But you can't take her with you? 'Why not? said Yossel calmly. Schneemann found himself expatiating upon the responsibility of looking after such an old woman; it seemed too absurd to talk of the scandal. That was left for the grandmother to emphasize.
'If I were in your grandmother's place I would be weaving my shroud, not thinking of young men. 'But she's thinking of old men, you said. 'Compared with her he is young she is eighty-four, he is only seventy-five. 'Well, they won't be married long, he laughed. Frau Schneemann laid her hand on his mouth. 'Heaven forbid the omen, she cried. 'I will go and talk to her, he said gravely.
'Well, why not go and see it? suggested the artist. Yossel stared. 'Is it for that you tore me away from my Talmud? 'N no, not exactly for that, stammered Schneemann. 'Only seeing you glued to it gave me the idea what a pity it was that you should not travel and sit at the feet of great Rabbis? 'But how shall I travel to them? My crutches cannot walk so far as Prague.
Beneath all his artistic perception of the humours of the thing, Schneemann found himself prosaically sharing the general disapprobation of the marriage. Really, when one came to think of it, it was ridiculous that he should have a new grandfather thrust upon him. And such a grandfather! Perhaps the Bube was, indeed, losing her reason.
It was not even as if he were really a Jew. Did they imagine he wore phylacteries or earlocks, or what? His few childish years in the Russian Pale what were they to the long years of European art and European culture? And even if in Rome or Paris he had foregathered with Jews like Schneemann or Leopold Barstein, it was to the artist in them he had gravitated, not the Jew.
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