Catskills Quote by Kevin Haworth

“Third-generation Jews and Eastern Europeans are now experiencing the same longing for Israel, shtetl, klezmer, and Poland, Chopin, and Catholicism, respectively”

— Joe Kotarba

“life for the Jews still in Germany was becoming increasingly unbearable. ”

— Ferris Smithers

The Holocaust committed by the Nazis turned this country, where most of the European Jews used to live and where their culture used to…

— Marek Belka

The persecution of Jews in occupied Poland meant that we could see horror emerging gradually in many ways. In 1939, they were forced to…

— Oskar Schindler

“In the 15th and 16th centuries, Poland was the center of European Jewish life. In fact, at the end of the 18th century, 75%…

— Matthew A. Rozell

In spite of the frightful pogroms which took place, first in Poland and then in unprecedented fashion in the Ukraine, and which cost the…

— Denis Fahey

“Before World War II, Warsaw was the epicenter of Jewish life and culture in Poland; 350,000 Jews made up its prewar population. This vibrant…

— Matthew A. Rozell

“In many ways, England was home to the first modern Jewish community in the world.”

— Phyllis Goldstein

“The noble old synagogue had been profaned and turned into a stable by the Nazis, and left open to the elements by the Communists,…

— Christopher Hitchens

Modernity has been largely shaped for Jews by three momentous experiences: the acquisition of citizenship by individual Jews in secular nation-states, the destruction of…

— David Novak

As a Jew, even if you were not born in Poland, the very name, Poland, gives rise to a shuddering in your body and…

— Reuven Rivlin

“The “age of enlightenment” ended some of the isolation, discrimination, and humiliation Jews had experienced in earlier times in Europe. Jews now had more…

— Phyllis Goldstein