Crossword-Solution: ZELIG 5 letters, 59 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 15

Benjamin Rosenblatt for permission to reprint "Zelig," first published in _The Bellman_; to The Outlook Company and Mrs.

And why should he stay here? Freedom of religion means nothing to him, he never goes to synagogue; and freedom of the press? Bah--he never even reads the conservative Tageblatt!" Old Zelig met such gibes with stoicism.

When the frightful cry of the massacred Jews in Russia rang across the Atlantic, and the Ghetto of Manhattan paraded one day through the narrow streets draped in black, through the erstwhile clamorous thoroughfares steeped in silence, stores and shops bolted, a wail of anguish issuing from every door and window--the only one remaining in his shop that day was old Zelig.

And the Gentile watchman reported the next day that the moment the funeral dirge of the music echoed from a distant street, Zelig snatched off the greasy cap he always wore, and in confusion instantly put it on again.

More than once his wife would be appalled in the dark of night by the silhouette of old Zelig in nightdress, sitting up in bed and counting a bundle of bank notes which he always replaced under his pillow.