Book Quote by Noam Chomsky

It's a lesser-known story, but the Japanese government (after the Russian-Nazi pact, which split Poland) did allow Polish Jews to come to Japan, with…

— Noam Chomsky

There's an Irving Howe book called 'World of Our Fathers' which is about the wave of Jewish integration from Eastern Europe. It starts in…

— Morgan Spector

I've been interested in Japan since the 1930s, when I read about Japan's vicious crimes in Manchuria and China.

— Noam Chomsky

“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

I read a lot of history. The passive Jews in Germany didn't survive. The smart ones got out.

— Paul Mooney

“By the end of the eleventh century, Jews were being squeezed out of international trade and into occupations forbidden to Jews, Christians, and Muslims—banking,…

— Phyllis Goldstein

Jews rule the world by proxy.

— Mahathir Mohamad

Throughout early modernity there were very strong pressures on Jews to assimilate. Assimilating meant cutting your ties with the community of origin.

— Zygmunt Bauman

After the Meiji restoration in 1868, Japan adopted an expansionist and colonial attitude towards its neighbours. It sought to identify itself with the West…

— Martin Jacques

Within the studies and on the screen, the Jews could simply create a new country - an empire of their own, so to speak,…

— Neal Gabler

We discussed the history of postwar Japan and how Japan had missed an opportunity to build a more functional democracy because of the focus…

— Joichi Ito

“The Japanese had no idea what elements of Western culture and institutions where the crucial ones, so they ended up copying everything, from western…

— Niall Ferguson