Family Quote by Phyllis Goldstein

“Since the rise of Islam, Jews had lived as a tolerated minority, or dhimmi, a status granted to Jews and Christians because they were…

— Matti Friedman

“The way a people (whether an ethnic group, a nation, or a religious community) defines itself has enormous significance. That definition indicates who holds…

— Phyllis Goldstein

Those other lands were Christian, and they boiled with bigotry. The rulers themselves were more or less tolerant, for they depended upon Jews as…

— Lewis Browne

“Only a few places allowed Jews to settle openly and in large numbers. Among them were Italy, particularly the Papal States (territories controlled by…

— Phyllis Goldstein

...the original mixed ancestry of the Jews and their subsequent history of intermixture with every people among whom they have lived and continue to…

— Ashley Montagu

“In this age of empires, Jews’ insistence on maintaining their own religion and their own cultural traditions made them outsiders in both the Persian…

— Phyllis Goldstein

“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

Jews survived all the defeats, expulsions, persecutions and pogroms, the centuries in which they were regarded as a pariah people, even the Holocaust itself,…

— Jonathan Sacks

We Muslims in the West, like Jews before us, grapple with the same issues that Jews of the past did: integration or isolation, tradition…

— Hamza Yusuf

For centuries, the Muslims were able to co-exist perfectly well with Jews and Christians in the Middle East.

— Karen Armstrong

“Privileged Jews were known as court Jews (because of their relationship with the king). Many were very rich, and some had rights that were…

— Phyllis Goldstein

“As dhimmi, Jews and Christians had rights, including the right to practice their religion and establish their own communities. In return, they had to…

— Phyllis Goldstein