Mendel Shpilman

Role, aliases, and summary hidden by structure-only view.

also known as Mrs. Shpilman, Frank, Emanuel Lasker, Mendele, Shpilman

actantial sender/witness

Murder victim; only son of the Verbover rebbe; IQ 170; chess prodigy who beat champion Gaystik at age 12; scholar, multilingual, playful; believed by some to be the Tzaddik Ha-Dor; later a heroin addict.

In The Yiddish Policemen's Union (Michael Chabon, 2007)