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An exceptionally fine re-working of the Rumpelstiltskin story. Miryem is a young Jewish woman living in a village in Russia. Her father is a moneylender but not a very successful one. Miryem refuses to see her family starve because the villagers won't repay their debts. She takes over the business and collects what's owed then carefully invests it in her grandfather's bank in the nearby city of Vysnia. On the way home through the winter woods, she boasts that she can turn silver into gold. The k
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Jun 21, 2018
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