Bellow's Rosenfeld

"I liked your [Isaac] Rosenfeld lecture very much. I agreed with most of it. Perhaps I would not write to you about Isaac even if I were not running because I am still thinking about his life, his character, his thoughts and his death and am not yet ready to discuss him. But I will say this: He combined all the reticence and shyness of a small sickly Jewish boy from Chicago with heroic ideas about destiny. And after all, history would not have been history without these apparently timid and inconspicuous Jewish children."

~~ Saul Bellow to Mark Schechner, September 30, 1975