About Quote by Simon Schama Download Open image “I find it very hard to write about Jewish history.” — Simon Schama ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5.0 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare About Find Hard History Jewish Very Write
“Jewish history is never simply about the Jews, but always about their relationship with the rest of society.” — Abigail Green Copy Share Image
You don't have to be Jewish to understand the history of Europe in the 20th century, but it helps. — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
The history of the Jews has been written overwhelmingly by scholars of texts - understandably given the formative nature of the Bible and the… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
I have a broad but not an expert or scholarly background in the Jewish tradition. I've tried to learn what I can from childhood,… — Michael Sandel Copy Share Image
The funny thing is that I write and I act a lot about being Jewish, but I don't really think about it as a… — Liev Schreiber Copy Share Image
Jewish history turns out not to be an either/or story - as in, either pure Judaism detached from its surroundings or else assimilation -… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
Jewish history has been in my cultural DNA since I was a child growing up in post-war London. In the midst of that dark,… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
I understood when I was quite small that there were two special things about the Jews. That we'd endured for over 3,000 years despite… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
The difficulty with poetry is that it doesn't have the life that Shakespeare or Jane Austen have beyond the page. You can't make a… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
Taxation, the very thing that had triggered the British civil wars, would do so again, this time in America. The taxes may have been… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
Anyone can write an academic piece directed at other academics. To write something that delivers an argument and a gripping storyline to someone's granny… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
In its Greek origins, historia meant inquiry, and from Thucydides onwards, the past has been studied to understand its connections with the present. — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
Jewish history turns out not to be an either/or story - as in, either pure Judaism detached from its surroundings or else assimilation -… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
Growing up in Britain as a rather loose Jew, the two things that didn't belong together were freedom and religious intensity. In America, they… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
In the end, history, especially British history with its succession of thrilling illuminations, should be, as all her most accomplished narrators have promised, not… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
From 1789, perhaps even before that, it had been the willingness of politicians to exploit either the threat or the fact of violence that… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
The default mode of modern writing about art is to despise any notion of singularity as so much overheated genius-fetishism. — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
The synagogues of late antiquity and the early medieval period were built around imagery: imagery of remembering the Temple, but also of the celestial… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
At 11, 12, I thought I was clumsy, ugly, a mess, an unappealing person, but I did have the gift of the gab. I… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
If you ask an introvert a question, wait until she thinks about it. Introverts think before speaking, not through speaking. If you want to… — Laurie Helgoe Copy Share Image
I talk to my mates about our kids, being too tired and being worn out. — Holly Willoughby Copy Share Image
With 'Pretty Girls,' I saw the opportunity to talk not just about crime but what crime leaves behind. — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
I write about presidents. That means I write about guys - so far. I'm interested in the people closest to them, the people they… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
That's something a lot of folks don't know about me - I'm pretty darn funny. — Michael Jai White Copy Share Image
I don't think about the press or the crowds or the other leaders of the race. The focus is only on myself. As soon… — Magdalena Neuner Copy Share Image
Sport is not just about entertainment. It is equally about winning and losing, pooling and galvanising the energy of the youth, upgrading people's physical… — Nita Ambani Copy Share Image
One of the ways that I discovered my confidence and my ability to overpower is becoming a mother. Suddenly, my world wasn't about myself… — Lights Copy Share Image
I didn't want to do 'Fashion Police' because I thought, 'This is stupid, this is beneath me, who wants to talk about fashion?' It… — Joan Rivers Copy Share Image
I just worried about my weight. Worried about my appearance and thought I wan't pretty enough to be a pop star. It was very… — Judith Durham Copy Share Image
