Europe Quote by Benjamin Disraeli

There is never a Jewish community without its scholars, but where Jews may not be both intellectuals and Jews, they prefer to remain Jews.

— Mary Antin

The Jesuits had learned that a Christian mission to China could never succeed if it were not in a position to show and convince…

— Hu Shih

You don't have to be Jewish to understand the history of Europe in the 20th century, but it helps.

— Tony Judt

I read a lot of history. The passive Jews in Germany didn't survive. The smart ones got out.

— Paul Mooney

“Before I met the Jesuits, I’d never encountered another group who thought that intellect and arrogance were treasures beyond price and necessities in waging…

— Pat Conroy

“Many young Jewish men—and a few young women—responded enthusiastically to the idea of broadening their education. But they quickly found that knowledge of German…

— Phyllis Goldstein

if we were forced to choose just one, there would be no way to deny that Judaism is the most important intellectual development in…

— David Gelernter

We Jews really don't need any tutoring in democracy.

— Charlotte Knobloch

“...to become a Christian one did not have to become a European. [Jesuit mission philosophy]”

— John W. O'Malley S.J

The Jews have always been students, and their greatest study is themselves.

— Albert Goldman

From its earliest days in the nineteenth century, and until the Holocaust, the Orthodox rabbinate in eastern Europe was not enthusiastic about the Zionist…

— Elliott Abrams

Jewishness cropped up and has never successfully been put down since.

— P. J. O'Rourke