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The Promised Land

CHAPTER I
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These were educated people, like Fedora Pavlovna, who made friends with their Jewish neighbors.

They were always respectful, and openly admired some of our ways.

But most of the Gentiles were ignorant and distrustful and spiteful.

They would not believe that there was any good in our religion, and of course we dared not teach them, because we should be accused of trying to convert them, and that would be the end of us.
Oh, if they could only understand! Vanka caught me on the street one day, and pulled my hair, and called me names; and all of a sudden I asked myself _why_--_why ?_--a thing I had stopped asking years before.
I was so angry that I could have punished him; for one moment I was not afraid to hit back.

But this _why_--_why ?_ broke out in my heart, and I forgot to revenge myself.


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