Letters to an American Jewish Friend: A Zionist’s Polemic
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This entry contains material that some people may find disturbing.[…] That we in Israel are in need of a dose of Jewish soul—that this, as much as sheer survival, with which it is in no small way connected, is a pressing issue of our existence—I readily concede. But that you in the Diaspora are in any position to supply it, or to preserve it like a fine wine to be drunk by us at some future time when we will be…
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