No

Then Aaron speaks up, white as a sheet. Telshe Yeshiva, - he says, - is still open, I always wanted to study in the place where all the future rabbis from all over the world come to learn.

We just need to go the other way, we need to go to Lithuania, everyone is now going to Lithuania - either fleeing the Nazis or fleeing the Soviets. The Soviets, who occupied eastern Poland, are closing all the local yeshivas, so the students are being transferred to Lithuania, which means that everyone can get asylum there. Aaron hasn’t talked about his Eliza in a long time. Eliza’s father violently pushed Aaron through the door, “so that I never see your Jewish face again, you will not corrupt my daughter, you will not ruin my family, you shitty piece of Jew.” Eliza is not Jewish, so they will never be together.

Not only is Aaron pale, he has completely changed - now he is only focused on studying, hiding behind letters, immersing himself in books and scrolls and never coming out. In Telshe Yeshiva you can study day and night without interruption, students take turns studying the Torah, Telshe Yeshiva is as famous as the secular Oxford, let’s go to Lithuania, or at least to the Polish Vilnius, Vilnius is a Jewish city, Jews will never abandon their own.