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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

I lived in a house in the East Bronx, a totally Jewish neighborhood on East 172nd Street. You didn't see Christians much, although one…

— Grace Paley

I grew up on the north side of Chicago, in West Rogers Park, an overwhelmingly Jewish neighborhood. When I was 13, my parents moved…

— Scott Turow

As a post-Holocaust kid, growing up in a neighborhood with a lot of Jewish refugees, I had got the idea there were no Jews…

— Mark Kurlansky

As a child, I personally didn't really get to know any Jews. I was eight years old when the Night of Broken Glass happened.…

— Helmut Kohl

I grew up in the classic American-Jewish suburbia, which has a whole different sense of what it means to be Jewish than anywhere else…

— Natalie Portman

It is very difficult to be a non-religious Jew outside Israel. The synagogue keeps Jews together in the Diaspora. In Israel, you are a…

— Tommy Lapid

You could grow up in Germany in the postwar years without ever meeting a Jewish person. There were small communities in Frankfurt or Berlin,…

— W. G. Sebald

The only place where I felt at home, on familiar ground, was the Jewish cemetery. And yet I had never set foot in it…

— Elie Wiesel

My father was born in Amsterdam in a highly religious family. He was in Amsterdam, and he went into hiding right near where Anne…

— Josh Pais

I grew up in Wakefield, Mass., and there were only a couple of Jewish families in the town.

— Israel Horovitz

My family is from Russia and Poland. We never had that thing with the German Jews.

— Rhea Perlman