Dec 28, 2009
One winter night in the Radzymin study house, three Jews swap stories about pity. Zalman begins by telling of a Count Jan Malecki, who freed his serfs long before Czar Alexander abolished serfdom in 1861. Dividing his land among the peasants, Malecki worked as hard as any of them. Meanwhile, all of his relatives lived idly from his earnings. Despite Malecki's egalitarian sentiments, the Russians who rule the area appoint him district judge. Because he is so tenderhearted, however, he never sentences anyone. As soon as he hears the flimsiest excuse, Malecki not only...
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