Act Quote by Cynthia Ozick

To be a Jew is to be strong with a strength that has outlived persecutions. It is to be wise against ignorance, honest against…

— Phyllis Bottome

To be a Jew means always being with the oppressed and never the oppressors.

— Marek Edelman

A Jew is anyone who says he is.

— David Ben-Gurion

The primary task of a Jew in turbulent times is to be Jewish.

— Elie Wiesel

To be a Jew is a destiny

— Vicki Baum

As a matter of fact, part of being Jewish is the whole question of what it is to be a Jew.

— Peter Riegert

Being a Jew is like walking in the wind or swimming: you are touched at all points and conscious everywhere.

— Lionel Trilling

The funny thing is that I write and I act a lot about being Jewish, but I don't really think about it as a…

— Liev Schreiber

“to be a Jew is to belong to an old harmless race that has lived in every country in the world; and that has…

— Phyllis Bottome

I don't consider myself a Jewish writer.

— Ellen Ullman

But I have felt that to be a Jew was, in some ways at least, to be especially privileged.

— Edna Ferber

If I weren't a Jew then I wouldn't be an artist, or at least not the one I am now.

— Marc Chagall