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maker, who, after seven years of painful struggle through Africa and the shores of Greece, landed with his wife and three daughters at the ruined, rock-strewn port of Akka. But the syna- gogue . He thought back upon the times when the calling of his name by some Englishman had been of critical significance: That night after we blew up the bridge inside the German border. By the people of Safad this shop was regarded with affection, and by tradition it was reserved for the home of some rabbi.

haps two dozen different synagogues, he settled upon three that exemplified for him the essential spirit of Judaism, and to these he returned. rtyard whose bottom rooms contained fod- der for camels and whose upper floor served as a kind of inn. In spite of the moist room his throat went dry, and in panic he looked to see if the mutasarrif's coun- tenance would betr But even if a devout rabbi like Asher ha-Garsi was in essence the same as a Christian or a Buddhist