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"Few citizens realize that our tradition of jokes about the foolishness of the middle child derives from a centuries-old humorous dialogue between Beszel's head rabbi and its chief imam about the intemperance of the Beszel Orthodox Church. It had, they agreed, neither the wisdom of the oldest Abrahamic faith, nor the vigor of its youngest."

The City and the City is both opaque and uncomfortably noir so far, but at least it acknowledges the Jews of Eastern Europe.