Quotation from Chaim Weizmann “There's nothing more humiliating than 'our' Jerusalem” — Dec. 1918

Talking about the ultra-Orthodox neighborhoods in a letter to his wife, shortly after his arrival in Jerusalem.

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" There's nothing more humiliating than 'our' Jerusalem. Anything that could be done to desecrate and defile the sacred has been done. It is impossible to imagine so much falsehood, blasphemy, greed, so many lies. It's such an accursed city, there's nothing there, no creature comforts. . . [It] hasn't a single clean and comfortable apartment. "

Tom Segev One Palestine, complete , Holt/Metropolitan, 2000, p. 71.

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