his 3 little precious girls, one a baby, and returning to his room, penned the words of the beautiful hymns, "It is well with my soul."  They had a tremendous father but their church kept accusing them of sinning to cause such a tragedy. They finally left the church & with like minded friends set out for Jerusalem to set up a place to carry out their faith in helping those that needed help no matter who they were. It's a fascinating book--she knew everybody from Lawrence of Arabia to Lowell Thomas. And they'd taken into their family a little Jewish boy, Jacob, who was the one who discovered the inscription on the wall of the tunnel Hezchiah had built.
Anyway, during the 60's I read^{just about}all the books out on the holocaust at that time, some novels, some humorous, just filling myself with Jewish thought, Jewish life, & their neat humor about it all. After all!^{how else can you survive,}I also read the play "Fiddler on the Roof" and as it was playing in NYC thought how neat it would be to see it--so I gave it to Mac to read & he liked it!I^{It's funny!}and so for our 20th Anniversary we went after leaving the kids supplied with food.  We went by train & stayed in an old ^mustyhotel. When we saw on the stage what we'd read in the play I was not prepared for the impact of the program. I cried myself to sleep that night. If you're not familiar with what a pogrom is, I'll tell you--in Russia during the time of the Czars, the Jews were targeted for destruction of property, of lives (Golde Maier, prime minister of Israel, lost her grandfather in a pogrom) and eviction. Why? simply because they were Jewish--They have a joke that makes as much sense--"All the world's troubles are caused by Jews & bicycle riders!" "Bicycle riders?!? Why bicycle riders?" "Why Jews?" And the Bible has the phrase, "They hated me without a cause "in several places. Jesus was hated without