I was touched by the honesty and courage that I felt it took for you, an academic, to write a book as personal as this one.

Some of us have scars you can see and some of us have scars that we hide deep inside, hoping no one will ever ask about them.

But wherever I go, I know I will feel most at home with the wounded of the world, who hold their heads up high no matter how broken they may seem.

It’s the land of my ancestors. I need to set my feet on that soil and see how I feel. I have missed my mother’s warm tortillas and many more things than I can name.

Now I know why they call sick people by the word ‘patient’. The patient has to have patience. Wait and wait and wait and not lose hope” -Ruthie.

Why is it that bad things have to happen so you learn there are lots of good people in the world?” -Ruthie.

Written with grace and thoroughly researched, One People, One Blood is an ethnography with a lot of heart that also sheds new light on a fascinating and fraught chapter in recent Jewish history.

I have a huge need for financial security; the emigrant in me has a fear of ending up homeless and in the gutter.

It's the land of my ancestors. I need to set my feet on that soil and see how I feel. I have missed my mother's warm tortillas and many more things than I can name.