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Memphis

IN SEARCH OF THE LOST JEWS OF MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE

Posted on June 1, 2015 by admin

So the author Stefan Zweig and Charles Steinmetz, the hunchbacked dwarf mathematician, were walking through Vienna at the end of the 19th century. As they passed a synagogue Zweig said, “I used to be a Jew,” to which Steinmetz replied, “I used to be a hunchback.” Read artilce here in the wonderful new on-line literary journal […]

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