"In the Country of Dreams, Longings, Regrets," review by Eliot Fremont-Smith of In the Heart of the Heart of the Country by William H. Gass, The New York Times.
This is the bookstamp of Rabbi Reuven Yisrael HaLevi Frenkel (also Fraenkel), who was the rabbi in the village of Risashitz near Kalisz, Poland. Rabbi Frenkel was born in 1769 in Lask, Poland, the son of Rabbi Yehudah HaLevi Fraenkel Charif mi-Lissa.…