America Quote by Isaac Mizrahi

I am not Jewish, but I think that America invented nothing so fine as deli food.

— Mike Newell

I'm the New York Jew who actually grew up in Minnesota.

— Al Franken

Suddenly in high school, I'm in a predominantly Jewish atmosphere. Jewish people were my gate to white America.

— Anna Deavere Smith

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 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

Most American Jews came from the lower middle classes, and therefore they brought with them not a lot of Jewish culture. The American Jewish…

— Arthur Hertzberg

Jewish Americans have a long and proud history in Georgia and in the United States. Their story is inherently American - it is one…

— Lucy McBath

I used to think the whole world was Jewish.

— Neil Sedaka

If you research history, I think we are all Jewish. It's the original culture.

— Amar'e Stoudemire

The Jews integrated themselves into American life to the point that the argument that the Jews aren't American sounded so stupid, that people stopped…

— Reza Aslan

I really don't even think of myself as being Jewish except when I'm in Germany.

— Peter Eisenman

We moved up to Oregon when I was eight, and I think the radical absence of Jewish life here might have strangely made me…

— Jonathan Raymond