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  1. Rebecca Goldstein _ Mazel

    Genius in a person was like weed that takes over the entire garden, that won't allow anything else to grow. {p. 251}
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  2. Rebecca Goldstein _ Mazel

    And by the way, Sherlock Holmes is Jewish. He changed his name. I'm surprised you nerver guessed it. {p. 248}
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  3. Rebecca Goldstein _ Mazel

    Ven mazel kumt, shtelt im a shtul. When mazel comes, pull up a chair for it. {p. 292}
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  4. Rebecca Goldstein _ Mazel

    Blau suffered from a mild form of messianism, an ailment as common among Jewish males as nearsightedness. {p. 264}
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  5. Rebecca Goldstein _ Mazel

    Hershel Blau, son of the Chasidic wandering preacher, was not yet so distant from his father's world that he didn't know deep in his soul the yearning to fly. What is a Chasid's dance but one long, sustained attempt to arch away into suspended ascension, beyond laws of bodies, a thing of air and light and fire? {p. 261}
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  6. Rebecca Goldstein _ Mazel

    Jewish Warsaw, which was roughly a third of Warsaw proper, was a city of rabbis and swindlers, capitalists and poets; but, most of all, it was a city of talkers. There were so many ideas in the air you could get an education simply by breathing deeply. {p. 206}
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  7. Rebecca Goldstein _ Mazel

    There's no reason. Mazel, Maurice. Only mazel." {p. 343}"
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