Where hunger is imposed by external circumstances, the act of starvation remains literal, a tragic biological event that does not serve metaphoric or symbolic purposes. It is only in a country where one is able to choose hunger that elective starvation may come to express cultural conflict or even social protest.
The Jew - is the symbol of eternity. . . . He is the one who for so long had guarded the prophetic message and transmitted it to all mankind. A people such as this can never disappear.