Only we, beingJews, of course, but Jews brought up in the very same religious rite, could really understand what it meant to have our own family pew in the Italian synagogue, up there on the second floor, and not in the German synagogue on the first floor, which, with its severe, almost Lutheran gatherings of prosperous Homburg hats, was so very different.
Bada, guk bakarrik-juduak bai, baina fede beraren agindupean haziak-jakin genezakeen benetan zer esan nahi zuen geure familiarentzako eserlekua edukitzeak sinagoga italiarrean, goian, bigarren solairuan, eta ez lehenengoan, alemaniarrean, oso bestelakoa baitzen berau, hango luxuzko kapela burgesen etorrera serio, ia luteranoarekin.