"At first I started off with the idea of writing a history of the Jews in Venice," he answered. "A subject suggested to me by Olga herself, which Roth, the (Jewish) Englishman Cecil Roth, dealt with so brilliantly ten years later.
-Hasieran, Veneziako juduen historia idazteko asmoa neukan-erantzun zuen-: Olgak berak iradokitako gaia, geroago Roth-ek, Cecil Roth ingelesak (judua bera ere) hamar urte geroago bikain aztertu zuena.