Israel / submitted by Israel Zoberman of Virginia Beach
While spending last summer in Haifa, Israel, where I grew up in the 1950s, I was intrigued by a street sign on Mount Carmel honoring the great German poet and writer Heinrich Heine (1797-1856). Haifa had many German Jews who immigrated there in the 1930s as the Nazis took over. These refugees perceptively took seriously the grave dangers that were building. Though Heine converted to Christianity from Judaism, stating that it was “the ticket of admission into European culture,” these German emigres nonetheless revered one of their own whose literary genius flew in the face of degrading Nazi antisemitism. He prophetically said, “Those who burn books will in the end burn people.”
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