from My Commonplace Book (enough wandering)

“We have wandered enough,” one passenger explained to Stone. “We have worked and struggled too long on the lands of other peoples. We must build a land of our own. Mir muzen boyen a yiddish land.” A girl named Ruth, a former inmate of Auschwitz, confided, “I didn’t expect to live, but I was determined to show them how a Jew could die.”

—Susie Linfield, The Lions’ Den: Zionism and the Left from Hannah Arendt to Noam Chomsky (2019)