Tombstone (Padua)

My Lord, how stands it with me now Who, standing here before you (who, fierce as you are, are also just). Cannot bow down. You order this. Why, therefore, I must break If bend I will not, yet bend I…

A shady incident took place in Moscow a few days before Easter. At noon, in the center of town, they seized an old Jew, poor and wretched, who was carrying a burlap sack on his back and in it the…