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"The Pagan Rabbi"Isaac Kornfeld, a learned rabbi, has hanged himself in a park. His old friend pays a condolence call after a bereaved wife. And he is shocked to find her cold, unforgiving, as she tells the story of her husband's great struggle between the flowering nymph of his passions and the book-laden old Jew of his soul. "Envy, or Yiddish in the us"Ostrover the storyplot Teller is the sole Yiddish writer in the us whose work is regularly translated and published. Edelshtein the Poet seethes with jealousy. If he, Edelshtein, had a translator, he'd be famous too! Tongueless in the us, imprisoned in Yiddish, Edelshtein plots and yearns and staggers through the snows of Manhattan, looking for a translator to save lots of him from his fate.
