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rest of Ricse, stood rooted in the soil. In the ’sixties of the last century, just when the current of world politics was carrying Hungary into the arms of Austria and to a German overlordship which provincial Ricse loathed, Jacob Zukor, a younger son, owned and ran the little general store.
Now among the tradesmen of Ricse was a newcomer, Nathan Liebermann by name. He sprang from Sina, a small town up in the hills where they make the Tokay wine. The Liebermanns had a different background from the Zukors, though they, too, had lived time out of mind in Hungary. From grandfather to father to son, they passed on the rabbinical tradition. The oldest boy was devoted at his birth to service of the temple, and in some generations, all the boys. If they felt no call to religion the men of the Liebermanns usually became physicians. Always they had saved and scrimped from the tiny wages of country clergymen to give the boys a higher education. Nathan was an exception. He felt no call to the clergy, to medicine, to any intellectual occupation. Having acquired a little store in Sina, he sold it and moved to Ricse, which offered greater opportunity.
To him, shortly after his removal, came visiting his sister Hannah. Elderly Ricse still remembers her as a young girl of singularly delicate beauty. Jacob Zukor, visiting his competitor, beheld her and fell almost violently in love. So, for that matter, did Hannah Liebermann. The affair ran the normal course. They married,