Foreword by United States Commissioner of Education Earl James McGrath
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OCR Page 1 of 3FOREWORD *
To those who have visited the young State or Israel as I
have, Miriam Comes Home calls up vivid and pleasant memories of
that land One relives the experiences of walking along the
Mediterranean in Tel Aviv, of standing in the dining room of the
Megiddo Hotel in Haifa and looking down over the beautiful city
below, of strolling through the Kvutza at Dagania. These and a
hundred other memories are inspired by this tale about the
experiences of the young girl Miriam who comes from Europe to
live in the new homeland.
But those who have not had the good fortune to visit
Israel will find in this book more than a story. In a very real
sense it epitomizes the new state and the courage and spirit
of its people. Miriam is only one of the hundreds of thousands
who are finding a new home in that part of the ancient Middle
East. Her story is the story of the great immigration of Jews
from all parts of the world into their old-new country. Some have
come to fulfill the age-old prayer of their nation to rebuild the
state from which they had been driven centuries ago. Others,
humiliated and oppressed in the lands in which they lived, have
come to Israel to find a life of freedom among their own children.
Thousands of children like Miriam came too, deeply scarred by the
miseries they had gone through before their arrival. To read this
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By Earl J. McGrath, U. S. Commissioner of Education, Federal
Security Agency, Washington, D. C., to Miriam Comes Home,
December 24, 1952.
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