Guerre and Shalom

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Ha'ger (The stranger)

Ha'ger (The stranger)

How it feels to be a minority of a minority

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Daniel Clarke-Serret
Sep 06, 2023
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Stanza 1] Life in Spain is good

but I am a stranger.

Of course I am.

To be a stranger in a strange land is to be expected.

2] But worse than being a stranger in a strange land

is to be a stranger in your own land.

Be that a stranger in your “own land” of citizenship

or a stranger in your “own land” of peoplehood.

3] To be a stranger in a strange land feels natu…

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