Word: kreshev
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...Krochmalna Street ("the part where the Jews lived") to Manhattan's Upper West Side, the neighborhood the author has called home for more than four decades. These specific locales bring forth universal truths. "One place is pretty much like another," says a character in The Destruction of Kreshev. "If they're on the face of the earth, they're all the same...
...mismatings as an old man with a young girl, an unattractive widow with a youth in his prime, a cripple with a great beauty, a cantor with a deaf woman, a mute with a braggart. Let me tell you about one such 'interesting' union I contrived in Kreshev, which is a town on the river San, that enabled me to be properly abusive...
...sexual instruction. When he finally urges her to sleep with her father's coachman, she agrees. Jealous and remorseful, the husband rushes to the synagogue and tells all. After a nightmarish trial, the bedeviled wife, lover and cuckolded husband are paraded through crowded streets, and the town of Kreshev itself goes up in flames. The Devil had done his work and a just God had done...
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