Those Ancient Lands, Being a Journey to Palestine

Louis Golding

1928

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This text contains derogatory descriptions of people of Arab descent. It provides insight into history; however, The Posen Library does not condone or promote hate speech of any kind.

Chapter V. Dawn in Palestine

I cannot linger in Egypt. They that came before me tarried too long. I have had the taste on my tongue and the dead air in my nostrils. Enough. That will serve.

Zagazig, the swarthy faces. Ismalieh, the British faces, the cascading flowers, the trim hedges. The desert again. Sand sifting remorselessly through the chinks…

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Louis Golding

1895–1958

The prolific novelist, poet, and travel writer Louis Golding was born in Manchester and educated at Manchester Grammar School and Queen’s College, Oxford. His best-known novels, including Magnolia Street (1932), which won him international recognition, drew on his intimate knowledge of immigrant Jewish life in his birthplace, which he called Doomington in his fiction. Although sometimes hailed as the successor to Israel Zangwill in Anglo-Jewish literature, his work lacked the latter’s staying power and was rarely read after his death.

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