“In the café of the Barnes and Noble bookstore, I often talked about Mames Bashevis Singer. He admitted to me that the prototype of the heroine in his famous novel “Shosha” (for this novel Singer received the Nobel Prize) was my mother. He said that such limited, stupid women are the most valuable thing in the Jewish people: “As long as such women are born and as long as they are with us, the Jewish people will exist. Such narrow-minded Jewish women are wiser than all the wisdom of the Torah and all the great German philosophy. God first created the aidishe mame, which took him six difficult days. To create everything else turned out to be sheer nonsense; the Almighty only needed a couple of moments to do this...”