In These Nightmarish Days
Here you have him, the proud Jew. The Jew who ruled his kingdom with a high hand in complete despotism: here is the Jew who never heeded anyone’s advice, who did everything with his own hand and followed only his own lights. Here that Jew stands in front of the crowd as a broken man. [ . . . ]
“The ghetto has received a painful blow. They demand…
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