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he Vodzher Rebbe huddled in the comer while his handful of fur-capped Russian Jews worshiped in the undis- ciplined manner of the past. She pushed him away and looked at him as if he were a stran- ger. efore dawn on Thursday morning, April 24,1096, the priest Wenzel hurried to his master's room in the castle of Gretz and banged on the door. It will never be yours, the older man said firmly.

There lay the difference between the two religions: there lay the explanation of why Christianit It was then that Rabbi Zaki, the amusing rotund man, fell into that sense of guilt which characterized his last years. - The crowd cheered and mothers began shoving forward the number of children Volkmar had anticipated, until mo than a thousand were clustered about the gates of Gretz. There were no rabbis.