My Jewish Culture - American Innocence by Anna Gát
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What is in your head.
The reason why I have rarely been homesick in the past 15 years of my wanderings is that what I really long for is Jewish culture. Jewish culture, unlike my birth city or my old school friends, is everywhere where I happen to be — I rebuild it from some mysterious source code wherever there is a moment to sit down with a book or time to play with a thought — and nowhere at all. The longing for the lost past that none of us can remember is vividly alive in me as it is at the heart of all Jewish prayer. You honor a destruction with your life, and you never stop. Jewish culture, as it must,…
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