Culture Quote by Gyorgy Ligeti

Jews were segregated from 1933 on. We could only play against other Jewish teams. This wasn't just social segregation; this was the beginning of…

— Henry A. Kissinger

My family were finally kicked out of Egypt in 1965 for being Jewish. We managed to remain longer than most.

— Andre Aciman

Jews have never, ever, ever wished to be separate, unless they were forced to be.

— Simon Schama

I grew very skeptical of certain kind of Jewish separatism in my youth. I mean, I saw the Jewish community was always with each…

— Judith Butler

I was nearly a teen-ager before I stopped assuming that everyone I met was Jewish.

— Kenneth Lonergan

Throughout early modernity there were very strong pressures on Jews to assimilate. Assimilating meant cutting your ties with the community of origin.

— Zygmunt Bauman

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

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

— Giles Coren

“The separation of Christianity from Judaism did not happen simply or quickly. It was not a single event but rather a sometimes painful process…

— Phyllis Goldstein

There's an Irving Howe book called 'World of Our Fathers' which is about the wave of Jewish integration from Eastern Europe. It starts in…

— Morgan Spector

I went to a Jewish primary school and all my parents' friends were Jewish.

— David Baddiel

I didn't know I was Jewish until I encountered anti-Semitism at the age of 10, when my best friend told me I couldn't come…

— Peter Eisenman