Quotes About Jewish

typical of the so-called "good Jewish bourgeoisie," which gave such marked value to Viennese culture, and which was requited by being completely uprooted

Stella Suberman's Suggestions for Further Reading The Peddler's Grandson: Growing Up Jewish in Mississippi, by Edward Cohen The Provincials: A Personal History of Jews in the South, by Eli N. Evans Insecure Prosperity, by Ewa Morawska The Slow Way Back, by Judy Goldman

Judaism for me is a sensibility of collective self-questioning and uncomfortable truth-telling. I feel a debt of responsibility to this past. It is why I am Jewish.

Viewing an American University art exhibition dedicated in my honor, the last thing I expected was to be accosted by a ninety-year-old Jewish woman whose head barely reached my belt. "I like you, but I don't like everything your country does," she growled. "Excuse me, ma'am," I courteously replied, "but do you like everything your country does?" "No." She wagged her finger in my face. "But your country must be perfect.

Landsman has put a lot of work into the avoidance of having to understand concepts like that of the eruv, but he knows that it's a typical Jewish ritual dodge, a scam run on God, that controlling motherfucker.

I resign, says Velvel. He takes off his glasses, slips them into his pocket, and stands up. He forgot an appointment. He's late for work. His mother is calling him on the ultrasonic frequency reserved by the government for Jewish mothers in the event of lunch.

His mother is calling him on the ultrasonic frequency reserved by the government for Jewish mothers in the event of lunch.

I liked the way the Jewish religion seemed, on the whole, to have devoted so much energy and art to finding loopholes in its crazy laws; I like what this seemed to me to imply about its attitude toward God, that dictatorial and arbitrary old fuck with his curses and his fiats and his yen for the smell of burnt shoulder meat.

Jinkx is a single mother and I've seen so many strong Jewish women.

Being Orthodox Jewish is kind of like being raised on like network sitcoms.

The success that I have in sitcoms comes from the fact that 60 percent of the writers are Jewish guys in their early to late 40s.

It's typical of Mormon people to love all people, but especially Jewish people.

I really love how Israel operates, and I love the Jewish people.

Though all the houses of Venice are strange and old, those of the Ghetto seemed particularly so – as if queerness and ancientness were two of the commodities this mercantile people dealt in and they had constructed their houses out of them. Though all the streets of Venice are melancholy, these streets had a melancholy that was quite distinct – as if Jewish sadness and Gentile sadness were made up according to different recipes. Yet

Así pues, a finales de la década de 1870, la Sociedad por la Cultura Ética de Felix Adler proporcionó al colectivo judío neoyorquino un medio para afrontar aquella intolerancia creciente en un momento oportuno.

I'm a cultural Jew, I was raised with it, so I'm still into it, like gefilte fish with kugel.

I get anxious. That lovely Jewish guilt that comes with ancestry.

I feel very Jewish, and I feel very grateful to be Jewish. But I don't believe in God or anything to do with the Jewish religion.

My father was a Jewish immigrant who settled in Argentina and was left to his own devices at the age of 15. My mother was a teacher, herself the daughter of a poor immigrant family.

Hey, I may loathe myself, but it has nothing to do with the fact that I'm Jewish.

I know a lot about Jewish comedians.

I identify myself as what I am. I'm half Jewish, like Proust. I have no other way to put it.

People always think I'm Jewish and changed my last name from Rabinowitz.

I'm a Jewish born-again Christian.