Alison Rose’s Reviews > The City Beautiful > Status Update

'They're all the same, Alter. We'll never be equals in their eyes. They can grit their teeth and tolerate us, but they'll never welcome us into their white cities, because ambition becomes something ugly when it has a Jewish face ... And no amount of blood, sweat, or fine tailoring will ever change that.'

'You can't look toward the future when you're carrying ghosts upon your back.'

In other words, the only time [Jews] were interesting was when we were accused of atrocities or being slaughtered in prodigious numbers.

‘You’re one to talk, Dovid,’ Yakov said. ‘When was the last time you danced with a girl?’
‘Just the other night.’
‘Nu? Who was she—your left hand or your right?’

[oh snap]