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let us be destroyed. We know

The Stranger

A Passover Playlet

not like cowards and criminals
that we shall emerge from
PASSOVER OMER TABLE hunted in the fields and in the now
this forest, this wilderness of

streets, tracked down like car- brutality and of bloodshed. We
riers of the plague.
will live to see a new day, at
Stranger: Now I know that better day.
you are my brothers. You ask
where these Gestapo men hide.
Jacob: Look Eric, the fron-
Jacob: ltun Eric, I think
me to undertake this special mis- tier. We are here on the very
We're not safe even in this
we're being followed.
sion
and
I
accept
it.
I
shall
go
forest.
Do
you
think
we'll
ever
threshold of freedom. Come
Eric: ':hat's impossible. I am get across the border? Stop.
immediately. I shall go to Jacob, we are the sons of Abra-
positive w: were alone when we Don't you hear something? Quick
America and on the Passover ham, Isaac and Jacob. The hand
scaled tl,. wall of the camp. get behind this tree.
ceremony I shall sit in every of Esau cannot keep us from
And besides don't you remem-
Jewish home. I shall remind
Eric: It must be your nerves,
going forward.
ber how Friedrich drew the guard
them that when they eat the
Jacob. I can't he.nr a thing.
away with his fainting act?
bitter
herbs,
they
are
tasting
the
Jacob: You can never tell Please don't break now. Pull
bitterness that has filled your
yourself together. We've been
lives with misery. I shall remind
through so many nightmares.
them that while they are re-
Forget about what is behind us.
Passover Greetings
joicing over the deliverance from
Think of what lies ahead. Think
Egypt of old, they must not for-
of seeing Elsa in Constanza and
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get their duty to liberate you
the children again.
from the Egypt of today. I shall
Jacob: (angrily). Don't men-
tell them that if God has not
tion Elsa to me now. Not now
seen fit to give us a Moses and
when all my hopes of ever see-
perform the miracle of the Red
ing her again are about to be
ledpth
Omer Table in the Museum of Sea, they must out of the de
smashed. What's that? Look,
of
their
hearts
solemnly
pge
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there's a man following us.
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Eric: Where?
The Greenhouses
Judge Mayer Sulzberger. The take up the staff of Moses, to
Jacob: There. For God's sake
days of the omer (harvest of- lead you out of darkness into
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Eric, run.
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Stranger: Hello there.
Shabuot) are recorded on the into the Promised Land. I shall
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sit and partake of the Passover
Eric: It's no use, this Nazi is
Omer Table.
feast. But I shall ask them to
right on top of us. We'd better
remember those who will have
give up before we're shot in the
no feast and no wine, but the
back.
homelessness and pain.s and dregs of grief and tragedy in
Jacob: Run, you fool, shoot- look at y your sallow faces
ing in the back will be a picnic, emaciated and bruised bodies the desolate hour that will be
Passover Greetings
. J'assover Greetings
I can see that a new Pharaoh their Passover.
if we get caught.
(Shots Ring out.)
Eric: But he seems to be fly- has come upon the earth far
Jacob: Down on your belly,
more cruel and terrible than—
ing through the air.
Jacob: Look, there he is in but he is the same, the same quick. Get down Eric.
Stranger: Be unafraid, my
Pharaoh. How strange. Has not
front of us.
all your learning and science brothers. Pharaoh's henchmen
Stranger: Why do you avoid
Ah, yes, I see, the will not find you. For every Jew
Don't you recognize a fel- helped?
me?
methods of torture have been that is shot down in cold blood,
low
Israelite?
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Eric:
We are prepared to go refined and extended by the black God will raise ten and a hundred
back to the camp with you, but magic of science. Oh, where is to fill his place and carry on the
Moses, where is our faith and mission of Israel. That will come
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please do not torment us.
to pass if you stand the test of
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Stranger: Are you not flee- our Jacob:
leader? Eric come here a persecution and your brothers
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ing from Pharaoh, too? Or why
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else would you be hiding in this moment. (Whispering in Eric's who enjoy the blessings of free-
ear). Poor fellow, the colleen- dom fulfill their responsibility
forest?
Jacob: What are you trying tration camp has driven him as the Children of Israel. Fare-
to say? What do you mean stark mad.
Eric and Jacob: Auf Wieder-
Passover Greetings
Stranger: I know what you well.
Pharaoh?
schen.
But don't believe
Greetings . .
Stranger: I cannot under- are saying.
Jacob: Did you see where he
stand you. Were you not lost him. You have been in these
together with me in Egypt and woods for four days. I have went?
He
has
disappeared.
Eric:
Our
ambassador
is'trav-
are we not all together trying been here for four thousand
to find Moses and the rest of years. I have seen your brothers eking Jacob:
on Mercury's
wings.
Was this a dream? I
crawling like hunted animals, I
our flock in the wilderness?
Eric: Who are you and how have seen them beaten to death feel as if all the terror and
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in the torture chambers. I have fear have been peeled off from
(lid you get here?
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Stranger: I am Abraham, Is- seen them flying to the ends of me.
What
has happened
to us?
Eric:
This
has not been
a
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sac, Jacob and Joseph. I am an the earth in search of some cur-
Something pro-
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Israelite and I have been wan- ner to call home. I have seen dream, Jacob.
as
dering
over
the
face
of
the
them
piling
into
leaky
ships
like
foundly
real
and
beautiful
h
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I happened to us. We know now
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earth seeking a place of peace cattle to go to Palestine.
and
security.
But
wherever
I
go
have
seen
the
Children
of
Israel
that
are we
not have
alone.
know
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now we
that
not We
been
the
I feel the lash of Pharaoh's in the wilderness—and yet have
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taskmasters and the sorrow of I seen no Moses. God is testing first
face
disaster.
know
now to
that
our
people We
will
not
us--he is testing our bodies and
our spirits.
Jacob: What do you know of
the ordeal we have endured? Oh,
God, give us the last of Pharaoh.
Give us the hard labor of Egypt.
Oh, God, give us the day when
our oppressors knew only the
use of the fist rather than the
thousand tortures of the mind
and spirit. We do not ask for
plenty. We do not ask for de-
liverance—give us, Oh God, but
a crumb of hope. We do not ask
for a Moses. We do not ask for
a Red Sea. Give us but a faint
sign of abiding presence.
Eric: If only we could be-
come refugees. Think of it. Ref-
ugees, free to breathe and to
think like human beings. Free
to despair of home and future,
not to brood over death and the
past.
Stranger: But are not the
other Children of Israel con-
scious of your plight and are
they not stretching out their
hands to comfort and help you?
Jacob: They are our only
hope. If only you could go to
them and tell them that we
shall not give up our struggle
to survive as long as they up-
hold our failing hands. Tell
them about the men and women
who have braved death to escape
this cauldron of hate. Tell them
of my brother, Jonathan, who
has gone to Palestine, who has
fought to save the soil of our peo-
ple, who stands ready today to
give his life for Israel.
Eric: And tell them of my
father whom we shall never see
again—my father who died with
the sacred words of "Shma Is.
roel" upon his lips. And of my
little sister Elsa who was shot
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down in the streets of Ham-
burg. Tell them we are ready
to die, but only for the sake
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