“North Lawndale's Jewish People's Institute actively encouraged blacks to move into the neighborhood, seeking to make it a 'pilot community for interracial… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
Major Trends [is] the canonical modern work on the nature and history of Jewish mysticism. For a sophisticated understanding, not only of… — Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi Copy Share Image
It's very clear from Biblical history and Jewish history that Jewish monotheism wasn't developed in an instant, that it became gradually the… — Robert Winston Copy Share Image
Won't it be wonderful when black history and native American history and Jewish history and all of U.S. history is taught from… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“IN THE fifteenth century, a swampy parcel of land in the sestieri of Cannaregio was set aside for the construction of a… — Daniel Silva Copy Share Image
My experience as a Jewish American has often been as a spectator of one-sided conversations, or more like monologues, about Israel, Jewish… — Jill Soloway Copy Share Image
None of the participants ever arrived at a clear understanding of the actual horror of Auschwitz, which is of a different nature… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If the main thing the next generations know about Jewish history is that we were persecuted and suffered, they will lose sight… — Deborah Lipstadt Copy Share Image
Jewish history has been tragic to the Jews and no less tragic to the neighboring nations who have suffered them. Our major… — Samuel Roth Copy Share Image
I think Jewish history did away with a priesthood when the Temple was destroyed, and it became, supposedly, a religion of scholars.… — Ben Katchor Copy Share Image
I'm a Larry David fan, right? And it seems to me that Jewish history from the Talmud on has been a self-deprecating,… — Peter Eisenman Copy Share Image
Judaism, Christianity, and I'm sure other religions also, are having to deal with the fact that they may or may not have… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
“Our story is not only about exile and oppression and suffering. It is the story of thriving, of triumph, and of great… — Daniella Levy Copy Share Image
Look at Jewish history. Unrelieved lamenting would be intolerable. So for every ten Jews beating their breasts, God designated one to be… — Mel Brooks Copy Share Image
“Two thousand five hundred. According to the documents Yoel has studied, that was the number of Jewish children hidden by Christian families… — Emuna Elon Copy Share Image
Written with grace and thoroughly researched, One People, One Blood is an ethnography with a lot of heart that also sheds new… — Ruth Behar Copy Share Image