One of the great things about us Jews is that we tell the best jokes. Part of the reason is we tell… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
Not every anti-Semite is Joseph Goebbels. You can not like Jews much and be no great harm to them. — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
The Christian Armenian story was the Polish Jewish story. The efforts of the Armenians to stay alive in Musa Dagh chimed with… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
The novels I planned to write were never going to be funny books about Jews. They were going to be country house… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
If you had to say in one sentence what being Jewish means, it is being able to make fun of yourself Jewishly. — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
I've always felt as much outside the Jewish experience as in it. It astonished my family that I wrote about things Jewish. — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
When I first went to Israel, I saw soldiers pushing Palestinians around and thought, 'I can't stand this'. Then I'd meet somebody… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
The presence of a Jew in any movement no more guarantees it to be innocent of antisemitism than guilty. And that applies… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
I was brought up a Jew but, you know, that way of being Jewish - the New York way. We were stomach… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
There was no question of ever sending us to Jewish schools... They wanted us out there. They wanted us to be lawyers… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
I've always said if a woman is looking for a good husband, she should go for a Jewish man past 60. Jewish… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
In the matrimonial life of the Jewish male every day is Yom Kippur. — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
When I see ultra-Orthodox Jews stamping all over Jaffa, or when I see them deciding who is a Jew, I think: 'What's… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
Everything is allowable in literature, but what is not allowable in criticism is objection on the grounds of probability. — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
There's a simple arithmetical logic at work. Build more unaffordable and not always architecturally sympathetic apartments, watch the rents rise, the tarts leave, the… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
The novel is a thing of irony and ambiguity. That's at the heart of 'J', a world that has stopped arguing with itself. We… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
I was a 'reverence for life' man - 'see life steadily and see it whole' - in my days as a lecturer in English… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
How Donald Trump has come so far with so few words - how he even managed to keep up conversationally with all those beauty… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
It is a nonsense to me when people come along and tell me not to be pessimistic; or that culture has always been going… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
For me a Writing Day was an occasion for self-reproach and panic, a time to lament the passing of the years, stare out of… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
That a nation's statuary will reflect beliefs and attitudes that are no longer current or congenial hardly needs arguing. In most instances, it doesn't… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
“Was he a bad man or just a foolish one? He didn't feel bad to himself. As a husband he believed himself to be… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
The young come in many guises: vigorous and passionate, vindictive and mean-spirited. And not every person over 65 is dozing in a retirement home. — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
To a philosopher like Nietzsche, the Jew is culpable not for rejecting Christianity but for inventing it. — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
