Tuesday, June 12, 2007

News at Eleven: I'd gladly leave behind me

all the pleasures of Spain--
if only I might see
the dust and ruins of your Shrine.

This is the classical, Zionistic awakening from the Dream of the Poem--the dream that cultural tolerance could hold off the violent monotheism of Islam and the murderousness of Christian polytheism (to tell a little truth).

from The New York Review of Books: The Lost Jewish Culture

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