Mail to the Promised Land
Anna Seghers
1944
Old Levi turned his face away that was so easily stained by tears. Again, he felt a twinge of longing for his terrestrial home. How strange it was, this longing for a miserable land where one had lived through nothing but humiliation and suffering. The blurry faces of the old men who had meanwhile converged around him, drawn to the garden by the…
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