Childhood Quote by Dani Shapiro

I never even realized I was Jewish until I was practically grown up. Or rather, I used to feel that everybody in the world…

— Joseph Heller

My dad was Jewish. My mom is not. So I was not raised anything.

— Matt Lauer

To be Jewish is to be specifically identified with a history. And if you're not aware of that when you're a child, the whole…

— Joyce Carol Oates

I'm not completely Jewish, if you know what I mean. I know people want me to be. My father is Jewish. My mother isn't.

— Julian Edelman

I feel culturally Jewish because of the way that I have lived my adult life.

— Susan Jacoby

While I am very much Jewish 'identified,' I'm not a very religious person.

— Jennifer Gilmore

I never paid much attention to being Jewish when I was a kid. In fact, I'd say my religion was more surfing than Judaism…

— Julian Schnabel

When I was growing up, I didn't know who Jewish people were, what it was to be Jewish.

— Mike Birbiglia

I always feel quite Jewish but I used to deny it until I was in my twenties.

— Giles Coren

The sense of being Jewish never left me, but when my grandmother died, I rebelled against Judaism as I knew it then, which was…

— Marge Piercy

I am half-Jewish, and yet really hadn't been brought up within the Jewish faith. So I had felt culturally Jewish, if that's possible, without…

— Rebecca Miller