Attention Quote by Julian Schnabel

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

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 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 studied Judaism a lot. I studied religion in general, and I have never imposed my Judaism on my kids. They are what they…

— Kirk Douglas

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

— Kenneth Lonergan

I was not a very good Jew. I never practised what Judaism tells you to do, to teach your kids all about Judaism.

— Kirk Douglas

I grew up with very little religious training. Actually, like, none. I think what Jewishness I felt as a kid stemmed almost entirely from…

— Jonathan Raymond

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

— Mike Birbiglia

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

— Giles Coren

I'm not going to get in to an argument with anyone about the relative merits of Judaism and Christianity, and what it means for…

— T Bone Burnett

When I was growing up, I, like many Jews, cheered what appeared to be the receding of faith from everyday life. The further religion…

— Bruce Feiler

I was raised Jewish. I didn't know anything about Christianity.

— Josh Young