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Title: The New Land
Stories of Jews Who Had a Part in the Making of Our Country

Author: Elma Ehrlich Levinger

Release Date: October 8, 2007 [eBook #22915]

Language: English

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THE NEW LAND

Stories of Jews Who Had a Part in the Making of Our Country

by

ELMA EHRLICH LEVINGER

"A new world, with great portals far outflung,
Holding a hope more sweet than time had sung,
To which the Jew, of life's high quest a part,
A pilgrim came, the Torah in his heart.
A land of promise, and fulfillment too;
Where on a sudden olden dreams came true....
Here grew we part of an ennobled state,
Gave and won honor, sat among the great,
And saw unfolding to our 'raptured view
The day long prayed for by the patient Jew."

_From "The Jew in America," by Felix N. Gerson_

New York
Bloch Publishing Company
"The Jewish Book Concern"
1920

Copyright, 1920, by
Bloch Publishing Company

TO
_Grandmother and Grandfather Levinger_
THESE "STORIES THAT REALLY HAPPENED"
ARE AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED