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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."