Judaism Quote by Markus Zusak

“Thus for me, the principal meaning of being a Jew was something people reliably held against me, a barrier to overcome. ”

— Scott Turow

“The Jews are an ignorant and barbarous people, who have long united the most sordid avarice with the most detestable superstition and the most…

— Voltaire

“One thing people wonder is why the Jews did not defend themselves, why we were like lambs led to the slaughter. In truth, many…

— Jack Mandelbaum

“They had watched him make a masterwork of scapegoating Jews for Germany’s fall from power and persuade his followers that enlightenment, humanity, and tolerance…

— Jessica Shattuck

“Jew hatred was overwhelmingly religious in nature and began to wane only in the age of enlightened absolutism in Western and Central Europe. Still,…

— Götz Aly

“without fighting back. The persecution of the Jews”

— Miklós Nyiszli

“Jewish history is never simply about the Jews, but always about their relationship with the rest of society.”

— Abigail Green

“You could taste antisemitism everywhere; the air of Germany was permeated by it. All the unavoidable consequences of military defeat, revolution, a ruinous inflation,…

— Phyllis Goldstein

“a Jew had to have two synagogues. One that he went to, one that he rejected.”

— Jonathan Kellerman

“The Jew is that sacred being, who has brought down from Heaven the everlasting fire, and has illumined with it the entire world. He…

— Leo Tolstoy

“wake us up and lead us to better things. Are we to leave it all to the Jews?”

— Anton Chekhov

“there was supposed to be this man who was Jewish and claimed to be God’s son. For this the powers-that-be killed him, because they…

— Jack L. Chalker