A Voyage to the Land of Ze-ka
Before continuing my story about the events in Pinsk in the summer of 1940, I would like to digress briefly into the realm of the miraculous. Let us imagine the impossible—something fantastic and supernatural: what would have happened in Pinsk, if Elijah the Prophet had appeared in the city at the beginning of the summer of 1940?
Much time has…
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