"sometimes American-Jewish life is too monolingual...But for me Jewish life is multilingual. We don’t experience that …"

"Immigrant life in general is miserable, as one sees in the literature produced by those who experienced the journey."

"The moment I entered a subway car in New York City, I realized that there wasn't one English language but a multiplic…"

"it is essential that we recognize that in the conquering efforts of the American English language, there is also a ce…"

"It's a significant fact that upon arriving to Ellis Island, the first thing supposedly immigrants or future immigrant…"

"What I want people to engage in, and people already do so, is not only in what others are telling us and what we're t…"

"I feel Noah’s ark, the Tower of Babel, the story of Abraham’s calling, Isaac’s Akedah, and Jacob’s ordeal and Moses’ …"

"Isn’t that the dream of democracy, to allow its dwellers to have a voice? The only way to achieve that is to allow th…"

"What I look for in the classics is a message that is reinvented every time a new reader opens it. Along with the auth…"

"pioneer in the validation of Jewish writings from Latin America"