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"I literally fell among Quakers when I went up to Oxford."
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"I didn't want to be on the losing side. I was fed up with Jewish weakness, timidity and fear. I didn't want any more Jewish sentimentality and Jewish suffering. I was sickened by our sad songs."
"At religious instruction classes, I encountered The Pilgrims Progress by John Bunyan, and the sincerity of the traveller in that book was overwhelming."
"During the Second World War, evacuated to non-Jewish households, I encountered Christianity at home and in school."
"I feel that the Christian experience and the Jewish one have much to give each other. If this open society continues and there is no return to political anti-Semitism, then this encounter, deeper than any theology, may happen."
"What would I have done if I'd been put to the test? Would I have risked my own life for people I hardly knew? Probably, I would have looked the other way at best or become another apologist for evil at worst."
"I was certainly open for something being on the edge of a nervous breakdown, perplexed by my own sexuality. I was gay."
"Pious XII was too neutral to mention the gas chambers; decent people like my own family were turned into devils by crude Christianity."
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