Books Quote by Dan Kurzman

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

— Scott Turow

“When I was in Auschwitz, I kept asking, why am I here, what did I do wrong? What did my grandfather do wrong? And…

— Alice Lok Cahana

“Being born a Jew meant being vulnerable to history, including its worst errors. Accident and history had involved Yakov Bok as he had never…

— Bernard Malamud

“Guido had lived as all Jews do, who, cut off from their people by accident or choice, find that they must inhabit a world…

— Djuna Barnes

“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

“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

"The Jews should not be allowed to keep what they have obtained from others by usury; it were best that they were compelled to…

— Thomas Aquinas

“Begin then made the inevitable–if inaccurate–analogy between the German-sanctioned selektzia at Entebbe and the more infamous actions of Dr Mengele at Auschwitz when a…

— Saul David

“The Jew is that sacred being, who has brought down from Heaven the everlasting fire, and has illumined with it the entire world. He…

— Leo Tolstoy

“One thing people wonder is why the Jews did not defend themselves, why we were like lambs led to the slaughter. In truth, many…

— Jack Mandelbaum

“One last thing I remember which was like a portent of things to come. We had been having tea in Dr Jordan’s house in…

— Agatha Christie

“wake us up and lead us to better things. Are we to leave it all to the Jews?”

— Anton Chekhov