Growing up Quote by Margarita Levieva

I'm Russian Jewish. And I had to grow up really quickly.

— Margarita Levieva

My mom's family is Russian Jewish, and my dad's Puerto Rico Catholic, so it's kind of a weird mix.

— Ian Gomez

I am of Russian-Jewish distraction.

— Delmore Schwartz

I'm of Russian-Jewish background. Like many Soviet Jews, my parents were engineers. My family migrated from Ukraine to Israel when I was six. They…

— Sasha Roiz

I have Czech, I have Russian, I have English, I have Italian. Uh, what am I missing? A little bit of Irish. The Russian…

— Joe Lhota

As my name might suggest, I'm Jewish. My grandparents were Polish and Russian Jews who came to Australia in the late 1920s, and had…

— Elliot Perlman

So an autobiography about death should include, in my case, an account of European Jewry and of Russian and Jewish events - pogroms and…

— Harold Brodkey

I was raised Jewish, my wife was raised Catholic. Though we respect each other's heritage, and while many of our friends are deeply religious,…

— Steven Levitan

The American Jewish left gets a lot of press time. But the American Jewish right does not. And in many ways, the American Jewish…

— Michael Oren

When the Jewish state of Israel is strong, Jewish communities worldwide are also strong.

— Robert C. O'Brien

Being "Jewish" is way stronger culturally than it is religiously.

— Gene Weingarten

“Good Christ, a Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy, and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy till they die!”

— Philip Roth