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 From
Inscriptions 1944 -1956
Charles Reznikoff
Out of the strong, sweetness; and out of the dead body of the lion of Judah, the prophecies and the psalms; out of
the slaves in Egypt, out of the wandering
tribesman of the deserts and the peasants of
Palestine, out of the slaves of Babylon and Rome,
out of the ghettos of Spain and Portugal, Germany and Poland
the Torah and prophecies, the
Talmud and the sacred studies, the hymns and songs
of the Jews; and out of the Jewish dead
of Belgium and Holland, of Rumania, Hungary and Bulgaria, of France and
Italy and Yugoslavia, of Lithuania and Latvia,
White Russia and Ukrainia, of
Czechoslovakia and Austria, Poland and Germany,
out of the greatly wronged a
people teaching and doing justice; out of the
plundered a generous people; out of the wounded a people of physicians; and out of those who met only with hate, a
people of love, a compassionate people. Back to Aliyah contents
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