This American Jewish music is a new experience for us at…

One of the great virtues, apart from the pleasure of performing these works, is that it's opened up an entirely new, expansive repertoire of…

— Neville Marriner

What I took back, because of my exposure to the Jewish music of the 30s and the 40s in my upbringing with my father,…

— Pete Townshend

Jewish comedy doesn't come out of nothing. Jewish music doesn't come out of nothing... I don't want to be part of a story where…

— Simon Schama

I started the label Tzadik to support an entire community of musicians, not just Jewish musicians. But the radical Jewish culture movement was begun…

— John Zorn

The American Jewish left gets a lot of press time. But the American Jewish right does not. And in many ways, the American Jewish…

— Michael Oren

The state of Israel seems to owe its very existence to the American Jewish vote, while at the same time consigning the non-religious to…

— Richard Dawkins

I am not an American of JEWISH faith. I am a JEW. I have been a JEW for a thousand years. Hitler was right…

— Stephen Samuel Wise

Before, we may have taken part in it without even thinking it was American Jewish, but in this case, I think, you have now…

— Neville Marriner

I had already been a young singer. And once, as a profession, I was a young singer, what you would call a soprano in…

— Charlemagne Palestine

“The most celebrated American author of the twentieth century, Bellow objected during the first part of his career to being designated a “Jewish writer,…

— Hana Wirth-Nesher

For many American-Jewish writers, the dominant motifs have been cultural, secular, sometimes comic, often satirical. Writing about the religious component of Judaism, I found…

— Allegra Goodman

As someone who spent a lot of years living in Jerusalem, one of the great perks is that when you come back, and you…

— Nathan Englander

Most American Jews came from the lower middle classes, and therefore they brought with them not a lot of Jewish culture. The American Jewish…

— Arthur Hertzberg

The American Jewish Committee has pioneered the German-Jewish-American dialogue.

— Klaus Kinkel

In the American Jewish community, there is little willingness to face the fact that the Palestinian Arabs have suffered a monstrous historical injustice .…

— Noam Chomsky