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What Price Life? –answer: One Kopek

May 27, 1927
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(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

For his unwillingness to reduce the price of tobacco by one kopek, a Jewish peddler, Salman Dworkin, paid with his life.

Dworkin was found murdered in the village Dilevitch, near Dubrowna. The police found that he had been killed by a peasant of the village because the peddler declined to sell him some tobacco for one kopek less than he had asked. The peasant was arrested.

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