want to establish a government in jordan and iraq today, remember your father's efforts, even if sharif husseins was formed in bussel, switzerland. the furle was lit and it was supposed to shine light to the dark corner of the world. i was less than nine years old. mean it was in 1906 when my parents and sheena and zipka, the other two daughters of the family arrived in the united states. shi now was 17 years old and zipka was four. years younger than me, the us was a place that seemed to be the promised land for the whole world, my dad had gone to new york a year earlier and we spent that year in belarus, in 1906 we decided to join my dad in milwaukee, wisconsin. at that time, the second wave of immigration to palestine, the promised land had begone. my father did not want to experience another displacement. many of our fellow jews tried to persuade him to go to palestine instead of the us, but there was still no government and law in that land. "the ottoman empire was getting weaker day by day. hertzsel met with abdullah hamid ii, the ottoman sultan, and asked him for land to build the jewish