What was lost in the European cataclysm was not only the Jewish past--the whole life of a civilization--but also a major share ofthe Jewish future.... [ellipsis in source] It was not only the intellect of a people in its prime that was excised, but the treasure of a people in its potential.
Cynthia OzickWhat we think we are surely going to do, we don't do; and what we never intended to do, we may one day notice that we have done, and done, and done.
Cynthia Ozick