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The Promised Land

CHAPTER I
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Is not that the code of war?
Encamped in the midst of the enemy, we could practice no other.

A Jew could hardly exist in business unless he developed a dual conscience, which allowed him to do to the Gentile what he would call a sin against a fellow Jew.

Such spiritual deformities are self-explained in the step-children of the Czar.

A glance over the statutes of the Pale leaves you wondering that the Russian Jews have not lost all semblance to humanity.
[Illustration: THE GRAVE DIGGER OF POLOTZK] A favorite complaint against us was that we were greedy for gold.

Why could not the Gentiles see the whole truth where they saw half?
Greedy for profits we were, eager for bargains, for savings, intent on squeezing the utmost out of every business transaction.


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