So far from being persecuted, the Arabs have crowded into the country and multiplied till their population has increased more than even all worldJewry could lift up the Jewish population.
Thanks to his mother who bribed a teacher at a state school, Marc escaped the narrow confines of the world of East European Jewry, learnt to speak Russian instead of Yiddish and eventually made contact with the bourgeois, cosmopolitan society in St Petersburg.