Absence Quote by Jonathan Raymond

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

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

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

— Anna Deavere Smith

I feel culturally Jewish because of the way that I have lived my adult life.

— Susan Jacoby

Growing up in Beverly Hills, everyone was Jewish, and I always secretly wanted to be.

— Kyle Richards

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

— Kenneth Lonergan

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

— Peter Eisenman

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

I've always felt as much outside the Jewish experience as in it. It astonished my family that I wrote about things Jewish.

— Howard Jacobson

I never paid much attention to being Jewish when I was a kid. In fact, I'd say my religion was more surfing than Judaism…

— Julian Schnabel

The older we get, the more Jewish we become in my family.

— Erica Jong