Culture Quote by Mark Kurlansky

If you research history, I think we are all Jewish. It's the original culture.

— Amar'e Stoudemire

Being Jewish is a culture and a religion; we have food, music, and land specific to us.

— Ari Shaffir

There is a diversity of thought and philosophy, diversity of languages and dialects, diversity of political spectrum, and there's a diversity of taste for…

— John Liu

When we talk about the Judeo-Christian or the Judeo-Muslim tradition, it's important to remember that we are speaking of a Jewish component of civilization,…

— Bernard Lewis

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

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

You know, being Jewish is problematic. Most people really don't know what exactly it means to be a Jew. We belong to a community…

— Anita Lasker-Wallfisch

I used to think the whole world was Jewish.

— Neil Sedaka

Honestly, what can really be said about 'the Jewish people' as a whole? Is it not a lamentable stereotype to make large generalizations about…

— Judith Butler

The Jews are the living embodiment of the minority, the constant reminder of what duties societies owe their minorities, whoever they might be.

— Abba Eban

Jewish communities in the diaspora are very important to Israel and we are open to a dialogue with them. It is bitter for us…

— Ayelet Shaked

The Jews cannot be classed as a 'race' per se, they are an ethnic group. '...the Jews form an ethnic group; that like all…

— Carleton S. Coon