World of Our Fathers Quotes

“Scholarship was, above all else, honored among the Jews—scholarship not as “pure” activity, not as intellectual release, but as the pathway, sometimes treacherous”
― Irving Howe, World of Our Fathers: The Journey of the East European Jews to America and the Life They Found and Made

“The world, or at least a few decent portions of it, could still be moved by the sight of thousands of victims, perhaps because it had not yet become hardened to the sight of millions.”
― Irving Howe, World of Our Fathers: The Journey of the East European Jews to America and the Life They Found and Made