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===== Despite the chaos, this was an era of cultural ferment. Rosa enrolled the boys in a Jewish community school, where they learned Torah alongside Russian literature. Frankhezka, still in infancy, listened to her brothers play and recite and was often rocked to sleep by Yakob’s half-finished compositions. =====

By 1908:
* Israel was beginning to write verses in a hybrid of Biblical Hebrew and Russian revolutionary idiom—angry, strange, and compelling.
* Yakob had been promised a letter of recommendation for the Moscow Conservatory's preparatory school.
* Artur was organizing a “library” out of discarded newspapers and string-bound notebooks.
* Franka had begun toddling to her brother Yakob's music and swaying in rhythm.