--- title: "11 Jewish Question Quotes by 10 authors" description: "Browse 11 Jewish Question quotes by 10 authors. Discover the best Jewish Question sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2b4/henry-adams-1542_inspirational_the-jewish-question-is-really-the-most-s_2943722.png" --- > [The Jewish question is really the most serious of our problems.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-adams/the-jewish-question-is-really-the-most-serious-of-our-problems/) [Henry Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-adams/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2b4/henry-adams-1542_inspirational_the-jewish-question-is-really-the-most-s_2943722.png) > [As a matter of fact, part of being Jewish is the whole question of what it is to be a Jew.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-riegert/as-a-matter-of-fact-part-of-being-jewish-is-the-whole-question-of/) [Peter Riegert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-riegert/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f54/peter-riegert-23510_being_as-a-matter-of-fact-part-of-being-jewish_3012882.jpg) > [If you have never read the Protocols, you know nothing about the Jewish question.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-hamilton-beamish/if-you-have-never-read-the-protocols-you-know-nothing-about-the/) [Henry Hamilton Beamish](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-hamilton-beamish/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/38e/henry-hamilton-beamish-78952_funny_if-you-have-never-read-the-protocols-you_1186331.jpg) > [“The Jewish Question? Thats a hell of a thing to ask!”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adolf-hitler/the-jewish-question-thats-a-hell-of-a-thing-to-ask/) [Adolf Hitler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adolf-hitler/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/32e/adolf-hitler-253_judaism_the-jewish-question-thats-a-hell-of-a-th_1241444.jpg) > [I herewith commission you to carry out all preparations with regard to... a total solution of the Jewish question in those territories…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/i-herewith-commission-you-to-carry-out-all-preparations-with-regard/) [Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/756/anonymous-1_europe_i-herewith-commission-you-to-carry-out-a_1327068.jpg) > [The Jewish question exists wherever the Jews live, however small their number. Where it does not exist it is imported by Jew…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/theodor-herzl/the-jewish-question-exists-wherever-the-jews-live-however-small-their/) [Theodor Herzl](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/theodor-herzl/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/50d/theodor-herzl-12888_appearance_the-jewish-question-exists-wherever-the_899058.jpg) > [Germany will regard the Jewish question as solved only after the very last Jew has left the greater German living space... Europe…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alfred-rosenberg/germany-will-regard-the-jewish-question-as-solved-only-after-the-very/) [Alfred Rosenberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alfred-rosenberg/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/486/alfred-rosenberg-17663_continents_germany-will-regard-the-jewish-question_65279.jpg) > [“Goldene Haar!'' he exclaims and takes one of my long braids into his hand. I am not certain I heard right. Did…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/livia-bitton-jackson/goldene-haar-he-exclaims-and-takes-one-of-my-long-braids-into-his/) [Livia Bitton-Jackson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/livia-bitton-jackson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/308/livia-bitton-jackson-61605_golden-hair_goldene-haar-he-exclaims-and-takes-one-o_922946.png) > [I have never concealed the fact and said it before the court in 1938 that I came from an anti-Semitic past and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-niemoller/i-have-never-concealed-the-fact-and-said-it-before-the-court-in-1938/) [Martin Niemoller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-niemoller/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f3d/martin-niemoller-20587_anti-semitic_i-have-never-concealed-the-fact-and-said_642318.jpg) > [“ Die Judenfrage ,' it used to be called, even by Jews. 'The Jewish Question.' I find I quite like this interrogative…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-hitchens/die-judenfrage-it-used-to-be-called-even-by-jews-the-jewish-question/) [Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christopher-hitchens/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/02c/christopher-hitchens-117_antisemitism_die-judenfrage-it-used-to-be-called-even_1024671.jpg) > [“There's a certain amount of ambiguity in my background, what with intermarriages and conversions, but under various readings of three codes which…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-hitchens/there-s-a-certain-amount-of-ambiguity-in-my-background-what-with/) [Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christopher-hitchens/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dc2/christopher-hitchens-117_ambiguity_there-s-a-certain-amount-of-ambiguity-in_2341405.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/jewish-question/#itemlist", "name": "Jewish Question Quotes", "numberOfItems": 11, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The Jewish question is really the most serious of our problems.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Henry Adams" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-adams/the-jewish-question-is-really-the-most-serious-of-our-problems/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2b4/henry-adams-1542_inspirational_the-jewish-question-is-really-the-most-s_2943722.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2b4/henry-adams-1542_inspirational_the-jewish-question-is-really-the-most-s_2943722.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2b4/henry-adams-1542_inspirational_the-jewish-question-is-really-the-most-s_2943722.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“The Jewish question is really the most serious of our problems.” — Henry Adams", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "As a matter of fact, part of being Jewish is the whole question of what it is to be a Jew.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Peter Riegert" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-riegert/as-a-matter-of-fact-part-of-being-jewish-is-the-whole-question-of/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f54/peter-riegert-23510_being_as-a-matter-of-fact-part-of-being-jewish_3012882.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f54/peter-riegert-23510_being_as-a-matter-of-fact-part-of-being-jewish_3012882.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f54/peter-riegert-23510_being_as-a-matter-of-fact-part-of-being-jewish_3012882.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“As a matter of fact, part of being Jewish is the whole question of what it is to be a Jew.” — Peter Riegert", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "If you have never read the Protocols, you know nothing about the Jewish question.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Henry Hamilton Beamish" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-hamilton-beamish/if-you-have-never-read-the-protocols-you-know-nothing-about-the/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/38e/henry-hamilton-beamish-78952_funny_if-you-have-never-read-the-protocols-you_1186331.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/38e/henry-hamilton-beamish-78952_funny_if-you-have-never-read-the-protocols-you_1186331.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/38e/henry-hamilton-beamish-78952_funny_if-you-have-never-read-the-protocols-you_1186331.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“If you have never read the Protocols, you know nothing about the Jewish question.” — Henry Hamilton Beamish", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“The Jewish Question? 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I am not certain I heard right. Did he say ''golden hair'' about my braids? Are you Jewish? The question startles me. ''Yes, I am Jewish.'' How old are you? I am thirteen.'' ''You are tall for your age. Is this your mother?'' He touches Mommy lightly on the shoulder. 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I am not certain I heard right…” — Livia Bitton-Jackson", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 9, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I have never concealed the fact and said it before the court in 1938 that I came from an anti-Semitic past and tradition... I ask only that you look at my life historically and take it as history. I believe that from 1933 I truly represented the Lutheran-Christian outlook on the Jewish question - as I revealed before the court - but that I returned home after eight years' imprisonment as a completely different person.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Martin Niemoller" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-niemoller/i-have-never-concealed-the-fact-and-said-it-before-the-court-in-1938/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f3d/martin-niemoller-20587_anti-semitic_i-have-never-concealed-the-fact-and-said_642318.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f3d/martin-niemoller-20587_anti-semitic_i-have-never-concealed-the-fact-and-said_642318.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f3d/martin-niemoller-20587_anti-semitic_i-have-never-concealed-the-fact-and-said_642318.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I have never concealed the fact and said it before the court in 1938 that I came from an anti-Semitic past…” — Martin Niemoller", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 10, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“ Die Judenfrage ,' it used to be called, even by Jews. 'The Jewish Question.' I find I quite like this interrogative formulation, since the question—as Gertrude Stein once famously if terminally put it—may be more absorbing than the answer. Of course one is flirting with calamity in phrasing things this way, as I learned in school when the Irish question was discussed by some masters as the Irish 'problem.' Again, the word 'solution' can be as neutral as the words 'question' or 'problem,' but once one has defined a people or a nation as such, the search for a resolution can become a yearning for the conclusive. Endlösung : the final solution.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Christopher Hitchens" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-hitchens/die-judenfrage-it-used-to-be-called-even-by-jews-the-jewish-question/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/02c/christopher-hitchens-117_antisemitism_die-judenfrage-it-used-to-be-called-even_1024671.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/02c/christopher-hitchens-117_antisemitism_die-judenfrage-it-used-to-be-called-even_1024671.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/02c/christopher-hitchens-117_antisemitism_die-judenfrage-it-used-to-be-called-even_1024671.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Die Judenfrage ,' it used to be called, even by Jews. 'The Jewish Question.' 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(Cheer up: neither will anyone else.) They/we will always be in exile whether they are in the greater Jerusalem area or not, and this in some ways is as it should be. They are, or we are, as a friend of Victor Klemperer's once put it to him in a very dark time, condemned and privileged to be 'a seismic people.' A critical register of the general health of civilization is the status of 'the Jewish question.' No insurance policy has ever been devised that can or will cover this risk.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Christopher Hitchens" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-hitchens/there-s-a-certain-amount-of-ambiguity-in-my-background-what-with/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dc2/christopher-hitchens-117_ambiguity_there-s-a-certain-amount-of-ambiguity-in_2341405.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dc2/christopher-hitchens-117_ambiguity_there-s-a-certain-amount-of-ambiguity-in_2341405.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dc2/christopher-hitchens-117_ambiguity_there-s-a-certain-amount-of-ambiguity-in_2341405.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“There's a certain amount of ambiguity in my background, what with intermarriages and conversions, but under…” — Christopher Hitchens", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } } ] }, { "@type": "CollectionPage", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/jewish-question/#webpage", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/jewish-question/", "name": "Jewish Question Quotes", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website" }, "mainEntity": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/jewish-question/#itemlist" }, "primaryImageOfPage": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2b4/henry-adams-1542_inspirational_the-jewish-question-is-really-the-most-s_2943722.png" }, "description": "Browse 11 Jewish Question quotes by 10 authors. 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