In old Feodosia, there was a blind Jewish storyteller who taught the children in three languages. Russian when the Cossacks were patrolling: Yiddish for the majority of the children; and Tatar for the ethnic Sephardic children. He taught them to respond to the stories as he dramatized them. So they responded with applause, groans, crying, or laughter as he cued them.
He dramatized stories from the Torah reading of the week.
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He dramatized stories from Sholom Aleichem:
And, to keep the Cossacks at bay as they strolled by, he read from the local newspapers, which had pictures of the Czar and his family:
The children looked for him every week on Thursdays. They never knew which corner he'd show up on. Afterward, they each offered him a kopek to thank him, per instructions from their parents.
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