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A European immigrant's account of taking it day by day in Israel.
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Yossel's Strength (opens the original)
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The sight of the tomatoes on display startled my great-grandfather Yossel. He was probably out running errands when he first caught sight of those blood-red, fleshy things heaped on a market stall in The Hague. They must be some kind of organ, he decided. It didn’t occur to him that tomatoes were vegetables you could bite into raw. I can only picture his bewildered look. The year was 1932. He had just arrived in The Netherlands to build a business and what he hoped would be a more stable existen
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