“I understood when I was quite small that there were
two special things about the Jews. That we’d endured for over 3,000 years
despite everything that had been thrown at us, and that we had an
extraordinarily dramatic story to tell. And somehow that these two things were
connected, that we told our story to survive. We are our story.” ―Historian Simon
Schama quoted in Elizabeth Jensen, “The Historical Becomes Personal,” The New
York Times, March 23, 2014
(Photograph of
Simon Schama at Strand Book Store, New York City. taken August 15, 2006, by
David Shankbone)
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