Eastern europe Quote by Phyllis Goldstein

“In both Muslim and Christian lands during the 1300s and 1400s, Jews were considered outsiders no matter how long they and their families had…

— Phyllis Goldstein

Dispersed as the Jews are, they still form one nation, foreign to the land they live in.

— Daniel J. Boorstin

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

— Zygmunt Bauman

The Jews were God's chosen people.

— Saint John Chrysostom

“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

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

“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

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

— Phyllis Goldstein

Jews have been living in Jerusalem way before British people were living in London.

— Naftali Bennett

So prominent was the Jewish role in the foreign commerce of Europe that those nations that received the Jews gained and the countries that…

— Will Durant

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

Ours is a country built more on people than on territory. The Jews will come from everywhere: from France, from Russia, from America, from…

— David Ben-Gurion