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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE

Thursday, September 7, 1950

Souls of Jewish Martyrs
Join Herzl on Mt. Scopus

By ROBERT SEELAV

UT OF THE GROUND they removed gently, even tenderly the case of human remains.
Assiduously they cleansed it of the soil and clinging plant life, even of the worms that
rotated about it seeking an entry. It was thei r avowed purpose that nothing of bloody Eu-
rope shall adhere to it. Then the devoted han ds lifted the case and placed it within the
belly of the huge metal bird and fastened it securely. The motors purred, revolved, faster,
even faster; the wings flapped noiselessly, the tail shuttered right and left, and the big bird
lifted itself into the vacant skies. The bird flew East, with its precious cargo. But within
moments the carrier appeared surrounded as with a vapor, high and wide.

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It may not have been visible ■
to the human eey, nor did the tine,' and the Israelites carried from the farther end, "I am Dis-
sounds reach the human ear, but Joseph through the wilderness to raeli, the great Beaconsfield. I
to the souls that congregated deposit his bones in accordance severed myself long ago from
the Children of Moses."
within the large cube, the eva- with his wishes."
"But in retort to the jibes of
nescent remains of the departed
Another voice was heard, that
Israelites in Europe, all scenes of Nordau: "These were the words your Christian friends against
and sounds were clear and dis- of another, who asked to be bur- Israel you stood in our defense came with the Romans to the far- son, with my fellow-Israelites.
ied and to rest till the Jewish nevertheless, hence you are of thest north, and my sons were The leaders of the Crusades were
cernible.
In mere moments this vast out- people shall carry his remains to us," came from George Brandes
to mines Of the Anglo isles. men with stout heart and mis-
er shell of colorless air surround- Palestine. They are the words of Cohen. "Look about you and you taken
This
is
our first re-union. They, guided aims. On the road to Pal-
ing the big bird and its case of the Redeemer of Israel, Theodor will see in this caravan Mendel- the Celts, Franks, Danes were estine, at every town and village,
remains grew to height and Herzl, whose bones are in the sohn, Heine and others who aban- plain folks but not cruel, like they practiced their soldiery on
our people and have re-
breadth immeasurable.
belly of the big metal bird that cloned
their present heirs. Their needs our hapless Hebrews. But we
Reaching almost to the ground, we are escorting as a cortege to joined them in this tribute to Is- were simple and they shared all were obliged to disappoint them
rael's Redeemer."
and as high as the unseen stellar Mt. Scopus in Palestine."
• • •
things between them. Their lives —we.took our own lives and those
bodies, as wide as all of Europa,
our
A hubbub followed. No one had
"WHERE IS Mt. Scopus?" were disturbed when the Huns of our beloved ones and river
this strange substance surrounded known whither and why the prd-
the swift
came from one who boasted he and Vandals came in from the corpses swelled meet
again."
the big bird. Many millions of cession of the living dead. Some
northeast, and, again, when differ- valleys. Now we
these unseen nebulae, the last muttered, the expressions varied, was from Espana, "I am the ent cultures invaded their ancient
No one painted a scene of the
Great Cardinal and gave up my
vestige of the interred Israelites there was no unity of thought.
contact with Israel many periods ways. As for me, I met with no last holocaust in Europa, with its
multitude of dead. No one was
of Europa, all the inhabitants of
disturbance."
"Shall we live again?" many ago."
the great artist to do so faithful-
its communities of Death floated
"The
cultures
that
our
friend
"Indeed, you did that," said
asked.
ly. All were deliberately silent.
within this aerial compound.
mentions
overwhelmed
the
Euro-
Samuel
Levi,
who
built
the
great
"Indeed we shall," or "We shall
The cortege is ended. The host
All had deserted their mutilat-
peans"
spoke
up
an
ancient
bard,
synagogue
in
Grenada
of
Espana.
ed bodies, their distorted faces, not," or just "Woe unto us" and "You joined the Inquisition of "and clashed severely in the fol- of the living dead is ensconced
their battered skulls, their shat- other pleas and supplications Torquemada. You altered my lowing centuries. As is now well at the peak of Mt. Scopus, an
tered bones, all the evidences of came from many invisible throats. structure into the Church of Our known, I was the embattled per- eternal guard of honor!
Europa's tortures and afflictions But even those who wailed kept Lady del Transito. But no one of
- -- - —
on the journey, with no effort to
and sadistic destructions.
the Christians had trust in you,
retrace
or
return.
The
tense
mo-
The cube of atoms followed
hence you are with us."
closely the big bird and from ev- ment eased.
"It is not traditional with our
New Year's Greetings
"What do I here?" a woman
Greetings .
ery section passed it drew up-
wards, from beneath the carved urged. "I was but a young person people to respect their elders"
from the
tombs, myriads of souls, young in the dreary lands of the Czars. asked a voice with the tremor of
age,
"and
I
am
the
oldest
wan-
His
soldiery
passed
the
home
of
and old, for the brutal hand of
derer in this part of the globe. I
MOHAWK
Bigotry knows no age, no sex nor my people and forcibly took me
any person's worth. It reckons its away. Then I was told that one
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if
I
would
believe
in
the
Shven-
The invisible forms understood
one another, whatever their re- turn Duhom. I had no choice. Why
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Another voice came.
moth cloud of living dead their
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"Woman must follow. But I —
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not
wish
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RASHI, THE TEACHER, spoke again and again while alive that
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Israel, saying, 'Ye shall carry up
"Now, here am I" came words
my bones from hence to Pales-

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