Judaism Quote by James John Courtenay

“The Semites originally moved out of Arabia.”

— James John Courtenay

In our national mythology, we seem to include only one-way migrations to the great capitol cities. The journey from the small Wisconsin town or…

— Mona Simpson

“In its classical form Arabic is of later date than Hebrew, but in its ancient form akin to Hebrew and Aramaic, certainly as old,…

— James John Courtenay

“There is some evidence that the Canaanites lived together with the Babylonians for a longer period than did the Aramaeans ... It is found…

— James John Courtenay

The question of boundaries is a major question of the Jewish people because the Jews are the great experts of crossing boundaries. They have…

— A. B. Yehoshua

It seems a long time since the morning mail could be called correspondence.

— Jacques Barzun

Except for the scale of the operation, there was nothing unusual about Hitler's massacre of the Jews. Genocide's an old tradition, as human as…

— Edward Abbey

“They are strange trees, palm trees, they are so individualistic, so unique, so full of capriciousness, just as Jews are. One palm tree appears…

— Dvorah Telushkin Master of Dreams A Memoir of Isaac Bashevis Singer 1997 2004

The Bible is to gays what Mein Kampf is to Jews.

— Peter Tatchell

My dad's Israeli. He was born in Baghdad to Iraqi Jews. Then, at age two, his parents wanted to move to their homeland and…

— Elliott Yamin

“There have been various attempts to reconstruct the vocalization and pronunciation of classical biblical Hebrew, which certainly differs considerably from that established by the…

— Angel Sáenz-Badillos

If Christianity had asserted itself in Germany, six million Jews would have lived.

— Malcolm X