A story from Between Restless Jews and Weary Arabs
Ambition and hard work
American political scientist Norman Finkelstein said once: "I grew up in a lower-middle-class Jewish neighbourhood in New York, very ambitious, very aggressive. This was an elbow neighbourhood. Everybody was out to make it."
Background: An illuminated page with a red and gold scrollwork frame Hebrew Bible, Spain, 1300–1350. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Cloisters Collection (public domain)