A Cityful of Jews
The man was a ferment of intelligence and emotion. He could not grow accustomed to the conventional life of the common herd. He thought differently from all the others and disliked collective thinking and action. He rebelled against the majority and its established order. Of course, years ago in a pious, even ultra-pious, Jewish community, the…
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