With Every Death, A World Is Disappearing.

You Are A Stranger, I Am A Stranger, We All Remain Strangers, And Nevertheless We Can Like Or Even Love Each Other.

All The Skills Which I Have Acquired During My Sociological Life Allow Me To Diagnose And Explain What Is Going On, But Not To Predict What Will Happen.

There Is Less Pressure On Abandoning Native Communities: What For? There Is Nothing To Be Gained By It. On One Hand, There Are Plenty Tempting Opportunities Of Experimenting With Identities - Being One Kind Of Person Today And A Different The Next Day. On The Other Hand, There Is Little Pressure To Include The Ethnic Identity Or Religious Identity Into This Mechanism, Because Now Everybody Is In A Kind Of Diaspora Today.

There Were No "unemployed" In The Impoverished Polish Countryside Before The Second World War. Not A Single Unemployed. Every Child That Was Born In The Peasant Family Had His Room At The Table And His Job In The Field, Stable Or Pigsty... If There Was Not Enough Food, Everybody Got Less. If Food Was Plentiful, Everybody Ate Better. In Such A Setting, We May Say, The Problem Of Security Couldn't Even Arise... One Was Born With Life-long Rights; The Only Thing That One Could Not Do Was To Change Them. A Setting Good On The Side Of Security, Though Bad On The Side Of Freedom.

The Proof Of My Jewishness Is That Iniquities Done By Israel Pain Me Much More Than Iniquities Perpetrated By Any Other Country.