One of the profoundest religious changes effected by the synagogue almost immediately upon its establishment twenty-five centuries ago was to bring c… - Nathan Ausubel

Folklore is a true and unguarded portrait, for where art may be selective, may conceal, may gloss over defects and even prettify, folk art is always revealing, always truthful in the sense that it is spontaneous expression.

Of all the astonishing experiences of the widely dispersed Jewish people none was more extraordinary than that concerning the Khazars.

First you laugh at a Jewish joke or quip. Then, against your will, you suddenly fall silent and thoughtful. And that is because Jews are so frequently jesting philosophers. A hard life has made them realists, realists without illusion.