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Article: Talking like a Jew: reflections on identity and the Holocaust.
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- Judaism
- Article date:
- January 1, 1996
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And if a stranger sojourn with thee in your land, ye shall not vex him. But
the stranger that dwelleth with you shall be unto you as one born among
you, and thou shalt love him as thyself; for ye were strangers in the land
of Egypt: I am the Lords your God-Leviticus 19:33-34
1. Debts and Acknowledgments
IN THE SPRING OF 1990, I WAS IN JERUSALEM GIVING some lectures at the Hebrew University, and my wife and I signed up for a tour of the Old City run by a Jewish agency.' The guide was a compact, voluble, relaxed man. It was raining, and at a certain point we took refuge in a cafe in the Jewish Quarter. I bought the ...