![]() ![]() Before they are forgotten, he is determined to collect the life stories of Soviet Jews and secretly sew them into the historical clothing preserved in Russia's great museums, even into the suit worn by Lenin's corpse. I only want my son to come back." Inspired by this document-the world's smallest Torah-the tailor is seized by a mission. It is a letter written by a nameless Jew who lived in the early 1800s under Nicholas I. One day while mending a vintage coat, Berman discovers a scrolled manuscript sewn into the lining. ![]() Although he has shut himself up in his tiny apartment, the curator of the Catherine Museum finds him and commissions him to repair tsarist clothing for a traveling exhibition. Old, weary, and alert to anti-Semitism, he has retired. Alexandr Davidowich Berman has made his living sewing costumes for the Kirov Ballet in Leningrad. ![]()
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