Click on the text of the poem above to see an enlarged version for easier reading. “Homeward” by P. M. Raskin was published in The Maccabaean in May 1917. As Naomi W. Cohen explains in her article “The Maccabaean’s Message: A Study in American Zionism Until World War I” (Jewish Social Studies, Vol. 18, No. 3, July 1956, p. 163): “Four years after the…
