About Quote by Simon Schama

I've always felt as much outside the Jewish experience as in it. It astonished my family that I wrote about things Jewish.

— Howard Jacobson

Better than the rest of us, they [the Jews] sensed what was ahead for their people.

— H. L. Mencken

My purpose is to have American Jews look away from the success story with which they've cheered themselves up, and to have them remember…

— Arthur Hertzberg

The Jews started it all-and by 'it' I mean so many of the things we care about, the underlying values that make all of…

— Thomas Cahill

The German mass murder of the Jews... brought my Jewishness to the surface.

— Ben Hecht

“The story of the return of the Jewish people to its ancestral homeland became, in short, one of the great dramas in the history…

— Daniel Gordis

For thousands of years, we Jews have been nourished and sustained by a yearning for our historic land. I, like many others, was raised…

— Ehud Olmert

It seems, though, that historically we have now reached a position in which Jews cannot legitimately be understood always and only as presumptive victims.

— Judith Butler

As a child, I personally didn't really get to know any Jews. I was eight years old when the Night of Broken Glass happened.…

— Helmut Kohl

When I was growing up, I, like many Jews, cheered what appeared to be the receding of faith from everyday life. The further religion…

— Bruce Feiler

Modernity has been largely shaped for Jews by three momentous experiences: the acquisition of citizenship by individual Jews in secular nation-states, the destruction of…

— David Novak

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