Character Quote by Ludwig Lewisohn

Jewish status is defined by the divine election of Israel and his descendants. One does not become a Jew by one's own volition.

— David Novak

Once a Jew always a Jew.

— Israel Zolli

To be a Jew means always being with the oppressed and never the oppressors.

— Marek Edelman

I am not a Jew in the sense that I would demand the preservation of the Jewish or any other nationality as an end…

— Albert Einstein

A Jew describes another Jew simply as a human being; a Gentile describes him, first and foremost, as a Jew.

— Gwethalyn Graham

A Jew is anyone who says he is.

— David Ben-Gurion

The Jew is at once alienated and indestructible; he is in exile from his own country and in exile even from himself, yet he…

— Delmore Schwartz

As a matter of fact, part of being Jewish is the whole question of what it is to be a Jew.

— Peter Riegert

Most Jews, like most rational persons, know that their personal identity and their ethnic identity are not one and the same.

— David Novak

The primary task of a Jew in turbulent times is to be Jewish.

— Elie Wiesel

To be a Jew, essentially and not just accidentally, is to regard the Jewish people as one's sole primal community. Election by the unique…

— David Novak

The Jew has always been a people with definite racial characteristics and never a religion.

— Adolf Hitler