The corridor goes on like an endless bpipe/b, winding through a vast concrete structure, which preserves an academic silence, a late-afternoon tranquillity. Zalkin takes the conversation into the backyard of Jewish history, in mid-19th and early-20th century Eastern ... In his work, ?In the bVale/b of Tears,? Mendele Mocher Sforim (penname of Shalom Jacob Abramovitsch, 1835 ? 1917) provides an exceptional description of one type of Jewish criminal organisation, cruel and dark. ...