God, Man, and Devil
Jacob Gordin
1900
For a long time . . . The first evening that you were with us, on Hanuka . . . you said that . . . that Freydenyu . . . my wife’s niece . . . that . . .
What could I have said about Freydenyu, God forbid? Did I say that she is as pretty as a rose in the month of May, radiant as the sun, that her two eyes are like luminous stars…