Muriel Rukeyser's To Be A Jew In The Twentieth Century

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“Your evening deep in labyrinthine blood; Of those who resist, fail and resist; and God, reduced to a hostage among hostages”. – “To be a Jew in the twentieth century” by Muriel Rukeyser was published in 1944 in a sequence which contained ten poems in “Letter to the Front”. It is said Rukeyser covers the Spanish Civil War and WWII on its pages. A reason to choose this passage and group with the other two is that they all either symbolize, verbalize and share the sense of being bound together. To be grouped as one and to be united, as a family, a race, a society and to be viewed as such. This sense of belonging and togetherness goes beyond being father, mother, brother and sister. It is their Heritage, part of their culture, their history and

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