In Russia I Went To A Great

My Name Is Asher Lev... I Am A Traitor, An Apostate, A Self-hater, An Inflicter Of Shame Upon My Family, My Friends, My People; Also, I Am A Mocker Of Ideas Sacred To Christians, A Blasphemous Manipulator Of Modes And Forms Revered By Gentiles For Two Thousand Years.

There Is In My Work A Very Strong Religious Foreground And Background. In The Later Work Some Of That Tends To Diminish, But It's Certainly Present In The Early Work.

I Will Go Wherever The Truth Leads Me. It Is Secular Scholarship, Rebbe; It Is Not The Scholarship Of Tradition. In Secular Scholarship There Are No Boundaries And No Permanently Fixed Views.” Lurie, If The Torah Cannot Go Out Into Your World Of Scholarship And Return Stronger, Then We Are All Fools And Charlatans. I Have Faith In The Torah. I Am Not Afraid Of Truth.

... An Artist Is A Person First. He Is An Individual. If There Is No Person, There Is No Artist.

In Russia I Went To A Great Yeshiva, And In America I Work In A Carnival.