Jews are the intensive form of any nationality whose language and customs they adopt.

Life's sharpest rapture is surcease of pain.

Thick February mists cling heavily To the dead earth and to each leafless tree, And closer down upon the hilltops draw, Dull forecasts there of bright, sure-coming spring; Yet the heart gathers hope and strange delight From this dear, unlovely, wished-for sight Of leaden-misted twilights lengthening.

Thou two-faced year, Mother of Change and Fate...

Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.

The Jewish problem is as old as history, and assumes in each age a new form. The life or death of millions of human beings hangs upon its solution; its agitation revives the fiercest passions for good and for evil that inflame the human breast.

My own curiosity and interest are insatiable.