From Strangers in the Land by Eric J. Sundquist

Writing in 1961, Daniel Bell, the secular child of observant immigrants, described himself as one "who has not faith, but memory," who was "born in galut [exile]," and accepts. . ."the double burden and double pleasure of my self-consciousness, the outward life of the American and the inward secret of the Jew. I walk with this sign as a frontlet between my eyes, and it is as visible to some secret others as their sign is to me."