The Spinoza of Market Street - Isaac Bashevis Singer
Isaac Bashevis Singer
The Spinoza of Market Street
First published in 1958
The Spinoza of Market Street
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Dr. Nahum Fischelson paced back and forth in his garret room in Market Street, Warsaw. Dr. Fischelson was a short, hunched man with a grayish beard, and was quite bald except for a few wisps of hair remaining at the nape of the neck. His nose was as crooked as a beak and his eyes were large, dark, and fluttering like those of some huge bird. It was a hot summer evening, bu ...