Remnants

RemnantsNearly All the members of the Yiddish Writers' Club in Warsaw, where I went in the Twenties, considered themselves atheists. Free love was an accepted way of life. The younger generation was convinced that the institution of marriage was obsolete and hypocritical. Many of them had become Marxists and proclaimed something they called ''Jewish worldliness.''A different kind of writer altogether was Mottele Blendower, a little man, a descendant of famous Hasidic rabbis. He (continued on pag...