Jesús

Pinkhes Berniker

1935

He didn’t take it seriously the first few times his roommates suggested that he start peddling images of Jesus, of Yoshke, as he preferred to call him. He thought they were kidding. How could they be serious? Were they fools? What could they mean? How could they possibly think that he should shlep the goyish icons through the streets of Havana…

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Pinkhes Berniker

1908–1956

Pinkhes Berniker was born in Belorussia, the son of a town rabbi. He received both a traditional religious education and a modern Hebrew education. In 1925, he immigrated to Cuba, where he worked as a teacher in the Havana Jewish school. He began at this time to publish stories and articles in Yiddish newspapers. In 1931, he moved to the United States, first to Rochester, New York, where he directed a Talmud Torah, and then to Hartford, Connecticut, where he taught at a Conservative synagogue.

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