Batya Gur > Quotes

“We, we, we were we, and if you shred this us-ness, all that’s left on each one’s shoulders is a burden too great to bear, literally too great to bear. In this us-ness of ours as the children of parents who came out of the concentration camps and this us-ness of ours as young men standing in the middle of the Sinai Desert facing helpless Egyptians, there flowed something that robbed us of ourselves.”
― Batya Gur, Murder in Jerusalem

“Simenon’s The Snow Was Black.”
― Batya Gur, Murder Duet: A Musical Case