From the publisherThe characters of Cyrille Fleischmann, a famous French writer, are the inhabitants of the ancient Jewish quarter of Paris. Most of his stories take place in the fifties of the last century - the time of the last surges of the fading Ashkenazi culture. The bitter humor and tart intonations of Yiddish in the writer’s language make one recall Sholem Aleichem and Isaac Bashevis Singer, and the fantastic nature of some of the plots - Marcel Aimé.