JL;DR SUMMARY Miriam Udel discusses the powerful themes in Zina Rabinowitz's 1945 Yiddish story "Elijah the Prophet," set during the Holocaust, where Jewish children hide on the French-Belgian border with the help of a Catholic priest. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.