Amount Quote by Joseph Heller

When I was growing up, I didn't know who Jewish people were, what it was to be Jewish.

— Mike Birbiglia

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

— Kenneth Lonergan

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

— Giles Coren

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

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

— Susan Jacoby

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 used to think the whole world was Jewish.

— Neil Sedaka

I do strongly identify with being Jewish. I was raised Orthodox and had a childhood complicated by the fact that my father was deeply…

— Dani Shapiro

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

— Peter Eisenman

I had always known that I was Jewish - we celebrated the holidays, we went to a synagogue - but I had never known…

— Caroline Leavitt

To be Jewish is to be specifically identified with a history. And if you're not aware of that when you're a child, the whole…

— Joyce Carol Oates

I am half-Jewish, and yet really hadn't been brought up within the Jewish faith. So I had felt culturally Jewish, if that's possible, without…

— Rebecca Miller