It has been a most rewarding experience to be associated with such a course especially since it is a fresh departure, and to see the quality and depth or work which it has drawn.
Although the themes of persecution and emigration, identification and integration, triumph over adversity in and enduring faith have accounted for a unique intensity in the history of the Jewish people, they have brought application for other peoples and other times. For this reason alone the [Spiro] course has a very wide currency indeed and a highly significant appeal to Jews and non-Jews alike.