“Zealots in the Land of Israel shriek that we ought to do unto Germany as it has done to us – that, just as Germany has issued a ban on Jewish books, so should we ban all German books, without recognizing or realizing that whoever deprives himself of intellectual discourse jeopardizes his own soul.”

“Zealots in the Land of Israel shriek that we ought to do unto Germany as it has done to us – that, just as Germany has issued a ban on Jewish books, so should we ban all German books, without recognizing or realizing that whoever deprives himself of intellectual discourse jeopardizes his own soul.”

— S.Y. Agnon