Take sides. Neutrality always serves the oppressor and never the oppressed.

For in the end, it is all about memory, its sources and its magnitude, and, of course, its consequences.

I was never without a book in my hand.

Worse still is that mankind - the non-Jewish world - learned nothing from the Holocaust: The event which had no precedent in history, which should be equal to the Revelation at Sinai in significance.

The only way for us to help ourselves is to help others and to listen to each other's stories.

You cannot write in more than one language. Words don't come out as well.

What of the Exodus? That too, is a wonderful story, but from the viewpoint of an historian, it is - to use a word scholars love - problematic. Let's say there are doubts, to say the least, among many scholars, as to whether the Exodus actually occurred. That's a historical issue.