A great story about Zvi Blum, a young boy living in Greenheath, Long Island, who gets beaten up by "the Anti-Semite". This story describes the struggle of a band of Jewish boys trying to even the odds with those around them. But mostly they just want to get revenge on the Anti-Semite. So, they begin to train and fight each other to build up their courage. Even with all the courage they still ask an older boy, Ace Cohen, to help them exact revenge. "We begged him on leadership. He showed us his empty hands. 'One punch,' he said, 'Take it or leave it.'"
And so he takes his one punch that breaks the Anti-Semite's jaw.
"Anyone who stood with us that day will tell you the same. With the Anti-Semite at our feet, confusion came over us all. We stood there looking at that crushed by. And none of us knew when to run."
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