Word: anshel
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...Zlotnik family, Polish Jews, were not well off in their native country. Father Anshel was good at cantillating the Book of Esther but hopeless at making money...
...worse shock still. Mother Suré wore herself out as usual trying to make and keep a decent home. Before she died of cancer she saw many a sad change come over her beloved family: her eldest son married to a wife whose family looked down on the Zlotniks, Anshel no longer cantillating the Book of Esther, but slaving in a shirt factory, her daughter Dvoyrele living in sin with an impoverished sculptor. But Death saved her from seeing the culmination of her daughter's tragedy...