Word: yankel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lord Beaverbrook's moneymaking, stunt-loving London Daily Express was not so generous, Rabbi Yankel Vallach of Lodz not so greedy, as TIME (People. Feb. 25) would have them. If Rabbi Vallach told the Express all he knew about his brother, Soviet Commissar Litvinoff, for 100 zloties, he received a mere $19 and not $1,900-a sum which would have made the good rabbi an exceedingly rich man among his people in Lodz...
...grubby street in Lodz, Poland, Lord Beaverbrook's stunt-loving London Daily Express tracked down a grey-bearded rabbi, proved that the rabbi was brother to Russia's Commissar for Foreign Affairs Maxim Maximovitch Litvinoff. For 100 zlotys ($1,900) Rabbi Yankel Vallach talked. His brother, said he, was born Meyer Moses Vallach, was a pious Jew until Tsarist police clapped him into jail. There he met Bolsheviks Kamenev and Zinoviev, turned Communist, atheist. Released, he was made the fat-salaried manager of a sugar factory. He almost forgot his Communism but police jailed him again for helping...