But in one brief meeting, the clerk at the Israeli consulate in Chicago succeeded in dashing his hopes. He knew that every Jew who came to Israel received automatic citizenship, and along with the new passport came the hope of ever-elusive salvation. He recalls that his relationship to the State of Israel began to change in the 1960s, when he became friendly with leftists and Marxists and was exposed to their world view.Īt that time, Pekar says, he was unemployed and so despondent about his life and his chances of finding work that he decided to look into moving to Israel. “I’ve never even been there, but it’s been a part of my life since childhood,” he says.
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