They lived in narrow streets and lanes obscure,
     Ghetto and Judenstrass, in murk and mire;
Taught in the school of patience to endure
     The life of anguish and the death of fire. . . .

Pride and humiliation hand in hand
     Walked with them through the world where’er they went;
Trampled and beaten were they as the sand,
     And yet unshaken as the continent.
—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “The Jewish Cemetery at Newport”

In the summer of 1933, while traveling in a tour bus through the Judean desert, Solomon Adelberg, twenty-four years old, disembarked,…