If we want to know history, I would think there would be every reason to.

Most people think that shadows follow, precede or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires, deeds, impulses and memories.

One day when I was able to get up, I decided to look at myself in the mirror on the opposite wall. I had not seen myself since the ghetto. From the depths of the mirror, a corpse was contemplating me. The look in his eyes as he gazed at me has never left me.

Therefore, all my adult life, since I began my life as an author, or as a teacher, I always try to listen to the victim.

I feel that books, just like people, have a destiny. Some invite sorrow, others joy, some both.

Judaism is in a sense a Rabbinic, Talmudic religion, rather than a Biblical religion.

I describe incidents which may or may not have happened but which are true.