Reading is fundamental...unless you're a Wise Fool in the right place at the right time...
(Quick note, a word not integral to the story but you should know it if you don't: a pogrom is "an organized massacre of helpless people," which, sadly, the Jewish villages of the time period of our tiny village too often endured.)
From "Tales of The Wise Fools of Chelm," available on Amazon.com in paperback and Kindle. https://amzn.to/3VpWj7y