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...Saturday. In Israel, the beaches were crowded, food was being cooked, and a modern government transacted business as usual, but in the house of Zvi Rabin-sohn, the Lord's day was being kept. In a sparsely furnished living room at Mikve Israel (an agricultural school near Tel Aviv), Zvi's son Solomon was reading aloud from the Bible; Zvi himself, a fragile old man with a flowing white beard, lay on a couch listening. Just then, a U.S. newsman came in to ask some questions about another member of the family...
Solomon's wife thought that, in justice, her scholarly husband should be considered at least as important as his sister, back home in Rumania. "We could tell a lot if we wanted to," she said. Her husband silenced her. But old Zvi's brown eyes flashed at the mention of his daughter. He sat up eagerly, his stocking feet dangling above the floor. "She was a very intelligent girl," he said. "I brought her up in the strictest Orthodox...
...Squashed Beetles. Ana Paukerwas born (1893) in Bucharest, where her father Zvi Rabinsohn was a shohet, i.e., the man who kills animals in accordance with Jewish rules. Rumania in those days was not a pleasant place, particularly not for Jews.The peasants, working Europe's richest soil for their boyar masters, were taught to blame all their misfortune on the Jews. Persecutions were frequent...
Soon Ana broke away from her family. She would go out with friends in the evening or sneak off to the theater. Old Zvi objected at first, then gave up. At 17, she met a young Socialist lawyer named Steinberg and fell in love with him. He gave her Socialist tracts and took her to May Day celebrations in the forest near Bucharest. After four years, they quarreled. Steinberg married Ana's friend Mitzi. (He has since died and Mitzi has gone to Tel Aviv. She said last week that she still keeps letters from Ana, which speak tenderly...
High Commissioner Sir Alan Cunningham's patience had reached the breaking point. For the fourth time in five days he summoned 62-year-old Isaac Ben Zvi, acting head of the Jewish Agency. In the thickly carpeted lounge of Government House on the Hill of Evil Counsel, Cunningham gave the bespectacled Jewish leader a frank warning that the British troops might be hard to control. The Jewish Agency would have to take positive action...