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"During the Second World War, evacuated to non-Jewish households, I encountered Christianity at home and in school.“

-Lionel Blue

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During the Second World War, evacuated to non-Jewish households, I encountered Christianity at home and in school.

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"I learnt pity, sympathy, and what it was like to be at the other end of the stick. Such lessons can't be learnt in lecture halls."

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"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."

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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."

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"Early on I saw the repression and idolatry of Stalinism, and when it cracked, I was open to religion again."

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