About the book: 2012 / The novel by the remarkable Jewish prose writer Yisroel-Yeshua Singer (1893–1944) traces the fates of two dissimilar brothers through wars and revolutions that befell the Russian Empire at the beginning of the 20th century. Two gifts - to live and to make money, two Jewish characters confront each other and are ready to absorb their stories. Who will have the last word in this tense confrontation??