I am not Orthodox, nor am I religiously dogmatic, and my anti-secular views are very far from any proselytizing tendencies. But I am a son of Hillel Zeitlin and a grandson of great-grandfathers… the God-experience runs in my blood, and it wouldn’t occur to me for one minute to get rid of it, and to exchange ancient gold for quasi-new filth.
–Aaron Zeitlin, quoted in Jan Schwarz, Survivors and Exiles: Yiddish Culture after the Holocaust
