This character's red car has a horn that plays the march from Pagliacci. In one appearance, he ensures that a police raid does not interrupt the wedding festivities of his forty-year-old, goiter-laden sister by burning down the police station during the party. Political upheaval described in the story "The End of the Almshouse" leads to the deaths of several of this man's associates in the story "Froim Grach." Reb Arye-Leib recounts a story about this man in which he earns his nickname by throwing a lavish funeral upon the murder of clerk Joseph Muginstein by Savka. He marries Tsilya Eichbaum after shaking down her father, and his relationshi
This character's red car has a horn that plays the march from Pagliacci. In one appearance, he ensures that a police raid does not interrupt the wedding festivities of his forty-year-old, goiter-laden sister by burning down the police station during the party. Political upheaval described in the story "The End of the Almshouse" leads to the deaths of several of this man's associates in the story "Froim Grach." Reb Arye-Leib recounts a story about this man in which he earns his nickname by throwing a lavish funeral upon the murder of clerk Joseph Muginstein by Savka. He marries Tsilya Eichbaum after shaking down her father, and his relationship with his own father Mendel provides the plot of the play Sunset. This Moldavanka denizen, also known as "The King," earned his chops by robbing the "Yid-and-a-Half" Tartakovsky. FTP, name this Ukrainian gangster central to Isaac Babel's Odessa Tales.
This character's red car has a horn that plays the march from Pagliacci.
Benya Krik [accept either; prompt on The King before read]