Book Quote by Morgan Spector

You don't have to be Jewish to understand the history of Europe in the 20th century, but it helps.

— Tony Judt

Jewish intellectuals contributed a great deal to insure that Europe became a continent of humanism, and it is with these humanist ideals that Europe…

— Daniel Barenboim

The Jewish world is becoming fully integrated with the ideas of the normal world. They feed off each other.

— Matisyahu

“In our case, as for countless other Jews, the price of integration was the loss of millennia of Jewish tradition. The Torah’s instruction gave…

— Roger Cohen

“Gabriel Wilensky's book is an excellent introduction into the history of antisemitism in Europe. His words will rightly unsettle those who have yet to…

— Jonathan Friedman

I think it was when I was nineteen, by that time the Jewish laws were already in force and the split was beginning to…

— Gyorgy Ligeti

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

— Phyllis Goldstein

“The story of the return of the Jewish people to its ancestral homeland became, in short, one of the great dramas in the history…

— Daniel Gordis

“Stella Suberman's Suggestions for Further Reading The Peddler's Grandson: Growing Up Jewish in Mississippi, by Edward Cohen The Provincials: A Personal History of Jews…

— Stella Suberman

“Even the Jewish communities that already existed in the Reich or in Vienna viewed Orthodox Jewish refugees as outsiders who lacked social standing and…

— Robert Gerwarth

From its earliest days in the nineteenth century, and until the Holocaust, the Orthodox rabbinate in eastern Europe was not enthusiastic about the Zionist…

— Elliott Abrams

“It is important that the reader takes note of where we get our knowledge of the Judaism of this time. There is no magical…

— Lester L. Grabbe