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III.] [Footnote 2: See p.

228 et seq.] [Footnote 3: An allusion to Gen.

34, with a play on the words _Bem-hamor,_ "the son of an ass."] Come, let as go where liberty's light Doth shine upon all with equal might, Where every man, without disgrace, Is free to adhere to his creed and his race, Where thou, too, shalt no longer fear Dishonor from brutes, my sister dear![1] [Footnote 1: From his Hebrew poem _Ahoti Ruhama_, "My Beloved Sister."] The exponents of American emigration were inspired by the prospect of an exodus from the land of slavery into the land of freedom.

Many of them looked forward to the establishment of agricultural and farming settlements in that country and to the concentration of large Jewish masses in the thinly populated States of the Union where they hoped the Jews might be granted a considerable amount of self-government.
Side by side with the striving for a transplantation of Jewish centers centers within the Diaspora, another idea, which negatives the Diaspora Diaspora altogether and places in its stead the resuscitation of the Jewish national center in Palestine, struggled to life amidst the birth pangs of the pogroms.