As an Israeli I'll take it most unkindly if you call my homeland 'Palestine! Well, anyway, when I served here Christianity went forward, and we were unlucky that during the same years Judaism went backward. But even this philbso- phical concession did not erase from Abd Umar's mind the con- tempt he held for whatever men lived inside that miserable house. I Rabbi Zaki the Shoemaker was a fat Jew, and this was his un- doing.
Blas- phemy had been spoken in his presence, and he suffered at the utterance of the intemperate words. werful voice, 'So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. Fifty-five glasses had been filled with wine that night as the great farriily sang, 'One kid, one kid for two zuzim,' and of the fifty-five all but two were to die in the holocaust. Hep! the drinkers repeated, and of a sudden the young man leaped from his chair, flung himself upon the bar, sliding down to where he faced the innkeeper.
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