"Kishinev thinks they are the best in the pogrom, please in the ear, Krushnik can teach them a thing or two" (Shalom Aleichem, "A Thousand and One Nights"). While a brutal war is raging in Ukraine, and our people there are tasting a chapter on the fate of the old Jew, I have returned to peace be upon you. Shalom ben Menachem Nahum Rabinovich was born in the city of Friaslav in the Kyiv region, then southwestern Tsarist Russia, today Ukraine. "Hidden covetousness," Bialik said of him. The novella "Tales of a Thousand and One Nights" (I chose a version...