"There is a saying in Yiddish, vi es kristlt zikh azoy yidisht zikh meaning that there is little difference between Yiddish literature and any other literature. But this is not so. If a people's literature is a mirror in which it finds it own reflection, then modern Yiddish literature holds up just such a mirror to Jewish life. Just as our history has for the last two thousand years meandered through a path very different from that of any other people, so has our literature followed a distinctive route."