History is full of the dead weight of things which have escaped the control of the mind, yet drive man on with a blind force. – Frederick Maurice Powicke, History, Freedom & Religion
Jews have a special relationship to books, and the Haggadah has been translated more widely, and reprinted more often, than any other Jewish book. It is not a work of history or philosophy, not a prayer book, users manual, timeline, poem or palimpsest – and yet it is all these things. – Jonathan Safran Foer