History Quote by Bernard Malamud

“Life had altered in the wildest possible way, but it was imperative that they act as if nothing at all had happened. Imagine smiling…

— Markus Zusak

“In 1929, Einstein, who had once lived in Switzerland, wrote: When I came to Germany fifteen years ago I discovered for the first time…

— Phyllis Goldstein

“Why did Iwanski risk so much to save Jews? He told the author, "When a Jew cries, I cry. When a Jew suffers, I…

— Dan Kurzman

“He sat there among them, listened to the buzz of their conversation. He was captivated by them. In that racket every voice touched a…

— Deszö Kosztolányi

“Extreme suffering engenders revulsion. Bert felt what Saul Bellow would call the “sense of personal contamination and aversion” engendered by the “disintegrating bodies” of…

— Roger Cohen

“He was not to blame for being born with an irrepressible charachter and a mind some how constrained.”

— Leo Tolstoy

“In so many ways, his family's life feels like a string of accidents, unforeseen, unintended, one incident begetting another...They were things for which it…

— Jhumpa Lahiri

“The likelihood that Jews would be sent to their deaths depended upon the durability of institutions of state sovereignty and the continuity of prewar…

— Timothy Snyder

“Thus for me, the principal meaning of being a Jew was something people reliably held against me, a barrier to overcome. ”

— Scott Turow

“Hitler is the rare individual who really did make history - specifically he made it worse.”

— John Green

“A proud Jew after all that had happened to them over a period of history, for geography.”

— Aporva Kala

“A Jew had once saved his life and he couldn't forget that. He couldn't join a party that antagonized people in such a way...…

— Markus Zusak