Bits Quote by Edgar Hilsenrath Download Open image “The Jews in the ghetto were every bit as imperfect as human beings anywhere else.” — Edgar Hilsenrath ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bits Ghetto Human beings Humans Imperfect Jew Judaism
The ghetto was not only a place of refuge for a persecuted minority but a great experiment in peace, in self-discipline and in humanism.… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
Those who automatically say that the social pathology of the ghetto is due to poverty discrimination and the like cannot explain why such pathology… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“Ghettos have their own characteristics and consequences : be they physical. social, intellectual or mental, those who live in them always nurture projection of… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
“The enduring racial isolation of the ghetto poor has made them uniquely vulnerable in the War on Drugs. What happens to them does not… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
Our house was in the middle of town; behind it was the ghetto, from which Jews were sent to concentration camps. — Krzysztof Penderecki Copy Share Image
“Privileged Jews were known as court Jews (because of their relationship with the king). Many were very rich, and some had rights that were almost equal to those of Christians. The vast majority of Jews, however, had few rights and at best just barely made a living. Historians estimate that about 10 percent were homeless. They could not live in… — Phyllis Goldstein Copy Share
“Jew hatred was overwhelmingly religious in nature and began to wane only in the age of enlightened absolutism in Western and Central Europe. Still,… — Götz Aly Copy Share Image
The Israeli mentality was totally different to mine. They just didn't understand people like me. They couldn't understand why I had been in a… — Edgar Hilsenrath Copy Share Image
“Like poor immigrants throughout the ages, Jews there adjusted to the jobs no one else would do.” — Felipe Fernández-Armesto Copy Share Image
Growing up in the suburbs of Chicago and living in New York, it didn't even strike me as a possibility that a place could… — Molly Yeh Copy Share Image
The Jews have lived an existence that is much harder than ours. There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust. — Fidel Castro Copy Share Image
The Holocaust would never have happened if black people lived in Germany in the 1930s and 40s … well, it wouldn't have happened to Jews. — Sarah Copy Share Image
The Israeli mentality was totally different to mine. They just didn't understand people like me. They couldn't understand why I had been in a… — Edgar Hilsenrath Copy Share Image
The Armenian genocide was also a Holocaust, but it wasn't my Holocaust. — Edgar Hilsenrath Copy Share Image
In Germany people want to make up to the Jews for what happened by idealizing them. — Edgar Hilsenrath Copy Share Image
Fame and me just don't go together. It's not always a fair process. — Edgar Hilsenrath Copy Share Image
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He referred to me as an 'insufferable puffed-up prat'. This is a bit rich coming from a man who actually married his own mother. — Steven Morrissey Copy Share Image
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