Comrade Yetta

In Benjamin Rayefsky’s basement bookshop, a boy with no money for college has reached “R” in an encyclopedia and considers himself a junior. Beside him, young Yetta reads aloud while her father turns a jumble of books into lessons about love, loyalty, and a better world.

In late-1890s New York, East Broadway’s crowded bookshop is a refuge for readers, dreamers, and neighbors who come as much to hear Benjamin speak as to borrow a book. He has brought his faith in kindness and human brotherhood from Kovna, and he means to prepare Yetta for the life ahead with stories and a vow she must learn by heart. But the girl’s sheltered evenings cannot keep the hard realities of the East Side at bay; soon, work and poverty will test the ideals her father has placed in her hands. What will Yetta hold on to when the world demands more than words?

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