American Quote by Simon Schama

I have one identity, and that's Israeli and Jewish. I don't view myself as an American citizen.

— Naftali Bennett

While I am very much Jewish 'identified,' I'm not a very religious person.

— Jennifer Gilmore

I am white. I am Jewish. I am an immigrant. I am a Russian American. But until recently I haven't focused so much on…

— Max Boot

“My identity as Jewish cannot be reduced to a religious affiliation. Professor Said quoted Gramsci, an author that I’m familiar with, that, and I…

— R.F. Georgy

I do strongly identify with being Jewish. I was raised Orthodox and had a childhood complicated by the fact that my father was deeply…

— Dani Shapiro

The Jews are a Distinct Nationality regardless of where they live, their station in life or their shades of belief, and his clarion call…

— Louis D. Brandeis

Most Jews, like most rational persons, know that their personal identity and their ethnic identity are not one and the same.

— David Novak

Most of the Jewish writer friends I have are American, and I feel closer to them because they're always obsessed with one issue -…

— Etgar Keret

I have been persecuted since I joined politics, and I have been living in persecution since then.

— Roy Bennett

Most people don't seem to know that I am Jewish.

— Becky Albertalli

I think the thing that I most appreciate now is that stereotypes involving Jewish identity activate fears of persecution that exist in the present…

— Gregg Easterbrook

American Jews, like Americans, have a very consumerist attitude toward their identity: they pick and choose the bits of this and that they like.

— Leon Wieseltier