blishment, by the Zionist movement, and by the critical re-
bviews of my book Time To Go Home (“An appeal to fear,”
b“Hysterical,” “Intemperate”) that, once again, the unfortu-
bnate Jews who did not want to listen would be lulled to sleep
bby their leaders. The eras of Herzl and Jabotinsky would
brepeat themselves, and this time the danger was far greater,
bthe Holocaust having once occurred and having set a
bdangerous precedent. The Wandering Jew was prepared to
bwander all over the world except home. And this was the
btheme of an article that I wrote for The Jewish Press in July,
b1972, called “The Wandering Jew.”
b“These are the travels of the Children of Israel by which
bthey went forth out of the Land of Egypt,” I wrote. “And
bthey journeyed from Rameses and they camped in Sukkot
band they journeyed from Sukkot and they camped in
bEitam. . . . And they journeyed from Refidim and camped
bin the Sinai Desert and they journeyed from the Sinai Desert
band camped in Kivrot Hataava, and they journeyed from
bKivrot Hataava and camped in Hazerot, and they journeyed
bfrom Hazerot and camped in Ritma, and they journeyed
bfrom Ritma and they camped in Rimon Paretz, and they
bjourneyed from Rimon Paretz and they camped in Livna,
band they journeyed from Livna and they camped in
bRisa. . . .” (Numbers 33)
b“The wanderings of the Jews on their weary desert jour-
bney home. The weary journey of the Wandering Jew
bthrough history. It is not relegated merely to this one forty-
byear period of the Jewish epoch. It is repeated constantly. It
bis the story of the Jew in exile, never knowing more than a
btransitory peace, never feeling more than a fleeting, inse-
bcure moment of security. It is a story repeated endlessly, in
bevery generation—not the least our own. It is tragic when
bthe Jew is forced to journey from one camp to another. It is
bludicrously pitiful when his wanderings assume the shape
bthey do in the America of our times.
b“Thus will future chroniclers write of the mad wander-
bings of the American Jew.
b“These are the travels of the American Children of Israel
bby which they went forth from the land of Europe. . . .
b