Stranger in My Own Country Quotes

“If the people I met didn’t know any other Jews, wouldn’t they think that all Jews were like me? And didn’t that mean that I had to behave especially well, lest they somehow conclude that all Jews have the same faults as I do?”
― Yascha Mounk, Stranger in My Own Country: A Jewish Family in Modern Germany

“A friend, assuming that I must speak Hebrew at home, goes into panegyrics about how beautiful a language it is.”
― Yascha Mounk, Stranger in My Own Country: A Jewish Family in Modern Germany