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Michael Moritz on Origin Stories, Exile, and Obsessive Curiosity

2 Sept 2026 7 published claims 1 attributable person
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01 / recommendation

He also is involved in San Francisco Standard, but most importantly, from our point of view, Michael has a new and excellent book out called Ausländer: One Family’s Story of Escape and Exile, which I absolutely recommend to you all.

“He also is involved in San Francisco Standard, but most importantly, from our point of view, Michael has a new and excellent book out called Ausländer: One Family’s Story of Escape and Exile, which I absolutely recommend to you all.”
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02 / belief

I think maybe his fascination with it, just like his devotion to Latin, I think drove me away from it. But he had also grown up in an era in Germany where there weren’t very many distractions, and I think the main entertainment of the week, best as I could tell, was going to the synagogue.

“I think maybe his fascination with it, just like his devotion to Latin, I think drove me away from it. But he had also grown up in an era in Germany where there weren’t very many distractions, and I think the main entertainment of the week, best as I could tell, was going to the synagogue.”
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03 / uncertainty

Then later in life, way later in life, our paths crossed again through a mutual friend and for several years, when our family was in the habit of going to New York to celebrate Thanksgiving with friends, Philip was a mutual friend of the hostess and so for, I don’t know, half a dozen years, we always had Thanksgiving dinner and among the guests was Philip Roth.

“Then later in life, way later in life, our paths crossed again through a mutual friend and for several years, when our family was in the habit of going to New York to celebrate Thanksgiving with friends, Philip was a mutual friend of the hostess and so for, I don’t know, half a dozen years, we always had Thanksgiving dinner and among the guests was Philip Roth.”
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05 / belief

I think that the principal reason that Jews, particularly the ones of my parents’ generation, settled in Wales were that those with entrepreneurial attributes were encouraged to settle in South Wales and in some other parts of Britain to set up businesses, to encourage local employment, and stimulate job growth.

“I think that the principal reason that Jews, particularly the ones of my parents’ generation, settled in Wales were that those with entrepreneurial attributes were encouraged to settle in South Wales and in some other parts of Britain to set up businesses, to encourage local employment, and stimulate job growth.”
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06 / belief

I understand the argument, but I began my life as a journalist and maybe subliminally, because I look fairly intently and always look fairly intently at works of art that have caught my eye, I think I’ve always looked carefully at whatever it is in front of me.

“I understand the argument, but I began my life as a journalist and maybe subliminally, because I look fairly intently and always look fairly intently at works of art that have caught my eye, I think I’ve always looked carefully at whatever it is in front of me.”
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07 / uncertainty

I think there were, I don’t know how many in the ’60s when I was growing up, maybe there were 600 families around Wales that were Jewish out of a population of around, probably back then, about 2.

“I think there were, I don’t know how many in the ’60s when I was growing up, maybe there were 600 families around Wales that were Jewish out of a population of around, probably back then, about 2.”
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