Books Quote by Phyllis Goldstein

“Mendelssohn was keenly aware of the difference between the respect he received and the disdain shown to other Jews. In a letter to a…

— Phyllis Goldstein

“Many young Jewish men—and a few young women—responded enthusiastically to the idea of broadening their education. But they quickly found that knowledge of German…

— Phyllis Goldstein

“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

[Moses] Mendelssohn was a religious Jew. I felt sorry for him.

— Elie Wiesel

There was reference made to a book written in Greek by a former Rabbi who had been converted to Christianity. There was reference to…

— Julius Streicher

At one point I would read nothing that was not by the great American Jews - Saul Bellow, Philip Roth - which had a…

— Kevin Barry

Since I have fought against these Jewish-Soviet ideas in Germany, since I have conquered and stamped out this peril, I fancy that I possess…

— Adolf Hitler

“For so long Marianne and Albrecht and many of their friends had known Hitler was a lunatic, a leader whose lowbrow appeal to people‘s…

— Jessica Shattuck

“Holding a precious book meant to Mendel what an assignment with a woman might to another man. These moments were his platonic nights of…

— Stefan Zweig

“As a convinced atheist, I ought to agree with Voltaire that Judaism is not just one more religion, but in its way the root…

— Christopher Hitchens

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

“Karl Marx’s early (1844) essay On the Jewish Question is a fascinating example of an intellectual form of Jewish self-hatred. He argues that Judaism…

— Norman Solomon