Dinner table Quote by Helmut Walser Smith

We set the table, but no one ate.

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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.

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My father's Jewish, so my world is Jewish whenever I go home.

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My father was the Jewish half of the family, yet it was my mother who taught me to have pride in that tradition.

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My father is Jewish, and I look exactly like him My mother is British, but she's of French extraction.

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