[etni] Korczak quote of the week
- From: "avi tsur" <tsuravi@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 09:35:44 +0000
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In May 1933, after Hitler's rise to power, Korczak wrote:
"It's enough for me to have met some ten or fifteen emigrants to Palestine
here to know what the people are like there: like people everywhere.
Perhaps, inside and out they are a little more bitter, a little more
yearning. People can intellectually be divided into two categories: Those
who rebel against life and those who accept it as it is. If I should some
day be fated to come to Palestine, I would not be coming to the people
there, but simply to the thoughts that what might occur to me there. What do
Mount Sinai, the Jordan, the Holy Sepulchre, the Hebrew University, the
graves of the Maccabees, the Sea of Galilee, even Purim in Tel Aviv and the
Jewish orange groves mean to me? My experience, after all, is of two
thousand years of history in Europe and Poland, of Jewish wandering. And now
that so many German Jews are going to Palestine, I'm afraid that I'll have
even less of a feel of things there. ?What the world needs is not physical
labor and orange groves, but a new faith, a faith in the future and in the
child as the source of all hope."
Joseph Arnon, Ein Hamifratz, Israel (Tel Aviv, 1977)
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