The Zionists had appointed him to a committee; he was a board member of a ** scholastic society;
he had become co-editor of an academic ** quarterly. And though he often referred to himself as an agnostic and even an atheist, nevertheless for years he had been dragging Gretl to Seders at Abraham Mekheles’, a Landsman from Sencimin. Dr Margolin treated rabbis, refugees, and ** writers without charge, supplying them with medicines and, if necessary, a hospital bed. He had gone regularly to the meetings of the Senciminer Society, had accepted positions in their ranks, and had attended all the parties.
