Quotes About Jewish

To tell you the truth, in the old Jewish shtetls, if your husband died, sometimes they'd have you marry the brother, and my grandparents were actually stepbrother and stepsister.

Being Jewish is a big part of my artistic sensibility and my humor... I think it gives me a certain take on the world on a literary level.

My music is really about people connecting with their identities, even if they aren't Jewish.

I just think of myself as a comedian, really. I mean, I talk about being Jewish a lot. It's funny because I do think of myself as Jewish ethnically, but I'm not religious at all. I have no religion.

I don't think Hank Greenberg thought of himself as the first Jewish baseball player - he was a baseball player who happened to be Jewish. I'm an artist who happens to be Latin.

The disappearance of the Jewish state will not mean the disappearance of anti-Semitism.

I came to a happy Jewish family in dark days in Europe.

I'm just a simple Jewish boy from the Bronx.

I'm this little Canadian Jewish girl, and I'm living my dream.

I don't consider myself Jewish. I am half-Jewish by race but not through my mother.

I'm Jewish and I can sing and I'm alive.

My father's politics and ideas were, to me, unforgivable. He was a Jewish convert who became very anti-Semitic, and I didn't find the anti-Semitism forgivable.

I always believe that my greatest audience will come from 70-year-old Jewish men and Jewish women, but that's me from my experience of going to High Holiday services and being adored by the women with free candy in the back.

I really don't even think of myself as being Jewish except when I'm in Germany.

Maybe there's something about the outsiderness of being Jewish that makes for a fiery feminist type.

My story is so boring: Long Island Jewish parents take their daughters to Broadway.

I was raised Jewish. I didn't know anything about Christianity.

My mother was a Jewish General Patton.

We want Israel as a democratic and Jewish state. So you have to maintain a Jewish majority, and you want to do that by legal means, by democratic means.

I'm Jewish. Went to a Jewish school.

I find it very hard to write about Jewish history.

I'm Russian Jewish. And I had to grow up really quickly.

I don't know much about any of the Hasidim because the men won't talk to me because I'm a woman, and the women won't talk to me because, while I am Jewish, I'm not Hasidic.

The majesty of the American Jewish experience is in its success marrying its unique Jewish identity with the larger, liberal values of the United States. There is no need anymore to choose between assimilation and separation. We are accepted as equals.