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“After my bar mitzvah, I started to assimilate, to really…” quote by Joel Grey — Download Open image

“After my bar mitzvah, I started to assimilate, to really not pay attention to my roots. The anti-Semitic experiences of my youth had been very painful. You try to put all that in the past and become a person of the world. I think that's the right thing to do. But it's not right to leave out who you really are. That's a tragedy.”

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