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...place is not one stone. Here are two monoliths that by an intolerable trick of metaphysics stand upon the same spot. The Muslim's Dome of the Rock looms above the Jew's Western Wall. The promised land is also hell in a very small place...
...Most Jews residing in Germany are refugees or emigres from Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, who see life in West Berlin and the Federal Republic as a vast improvement over their previous existence. Many are baffled that anyone should think their presence worthy of comment. "Living as a Jew in Germany is , just like living in America," says Alex Kozulin, 31, a Russian-born pianist who came to West Berlin via Israel twelve years ago. "I don't feel I have any enemies." Heiner Ulmer, 40, the son of Polish concentration-camp survivors who settled in Bamberg after...
...culture is German. Frankfurt is my city. Germany is my country. But here I must constantly justify myself to others. When I get on a bus and see an old man, I ask myself, 'What did he do in World War II?' If he knew I was a Jew, what would he do now?" Convinced that Jews cannot live normal lives in Germany, Karmeli has decided to emigrate to Israel. Says his friend Deni Kranz, 25, born in Cologne to Israeli parents: "Here you are exotic as a Jew, like the way mangoes are exotic to East Germans...
...true that every Soviet Jew who has emigrated to Israel this year has been met at the airport by the entire Knesset. But the welcome mat has been impressive enough. Israel State Television briefly added Cyrillic subtitles to its evening newscasts, and the daily newspaper Ma'ariv plans to start a Russian-language edition this summer. Banks place Russian-language ads in their front windows and offer special inducements to newcomers. Ryzshinka, a yogurt-like Russian drink, is now available, packaged in a bottle sporting (yes) red and gold, the colors of the Soviet flag...
...then Stern, whose Jewish parents fled to Argentina to avoid persecution in Europe, has learned "the gloomy lessons of foreign experience." Although he is known as Sandy in the U.S. -- his home since 1947 -- Stern remains a melancholy outsider with strong immigrant convictions. "No person Argentine by birth, a Jew alive to hear of the Holocaust could march in the jackboots of authority without intense self-doubt; better to keep his voice among the voices, to speak out daily for these frail liberties, so misunderstood, whose existence, far more than any prosecution, marked us all as decent, civilized, as human...