Demille, Nelson - By the Rivers of Babylon by Demille Nelson

Author:Demille, Nelson [Demille, Nelson]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Thrillers, Political
ISBN: 9780446358590
Google: RkDTKgxA5UUC
Amazon: B000FA5SMA
Barnesnoble: B000FA5SMA
Goodreads: 9961655
Publisher: Hachette Digital
Published: 1978-01-01T06:00:00+00:00

The stars were stronger and there were more of them now. The Euphrates magnified the thin, cold starlight, and Hausner could see the group of about twenty dark shapes standing around the grave and silhouetted against the wide river. He moved closer but stayed behind the group. Miriam stood beside him for a second, then moved among the people to the graveside.

Moses Hess was lowered gently into his grave. The rabbi said the El Male Rachimim, the Prayer for the Dead, in a loud, clear voice that rolled down the slope, across the river, and onto the mud flats.

Becker also stood back from the ring of people around the grave, and Hausner could see that he was visibly upset.

How strange, thought Hausner. The bones of thousands of Jews were buried at Babylon. How strange to be burying another today. The rabbi’s voice reached him from the edges of his mind. “… yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion. We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst…” Hausner realized that those famous willows no longer existed. He had not seen one.

Miriam Bernstein spoke quietly with the rabbi. He nodded. She turned and spoke softly, almost inaudibly, to the people gathered in the darkness. “Many of you know what has come to be called the Ravensbrück Prayer,” she began, “written by an anonymous author on a scrap of wrapping paper and found at the camp after it was liberated. It is proper that we hear it now, at this service, so that we remember, whether we be in Babylon, Jerusalem, or New York, that we are on a mission of peace.” She turned and looked down into the open grave and began.

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